RV Hall of Fame Website Down?
The RV Hall of Fame quietly switched to a brand new website this week, and the old site appears to be fully suspended with no migration in place for redirects, SEO or backlink preservation.
I work adjacent to the RV industry, and I was supposed to write a blog post today about the RV Hall of Fame. I visited the museum, took photos, made notes, and then came home to pull some background information. When I went to check the original site, it showed an account suspended page. That caught my attention, because the old site had been up for years and had a lot of content on it.
Checking the old site and seeing the suspended notice
The old URL loaded a suspended account message instead of the usual pages. I don’t know the exact moment it went down, but it was recently functional. They posted on Facebook today announcing a new website, which lined up with what I was seeing. So I started comparing what changed.
Missing Northern Indiana Event Center pages
On the new site, I couldn’t find any information labeled under the Northern Indiana Event Center. Instead, the same space appears to be listed as the East Wing Convention Hall. The photos match, so it looks like a renaming. Since the old site is suspended, there’s no way to double-check the previous descriptions or see how it was originally presented.
Comparing authority between the old and new domains
I checked SEMrush out of curiosity. The old domain had more than 13,000 backlinks and an authority score of 32. The new domain has zero authority, zero backlinks, and no ranking history. It looks like the old site was taken offline without redirecting anything to the new one. If that’s the case, all that domain authority just disappeared.
Google taking longer to index my RV Hall of Fame pages
I submitted a few of my own RV Hall of Fame pages for indexing after I uploaded them. Normally Google indexes my new posts within about fifteen minutes. Today they didn’t. Hours passed and they were still sitting in “crawled but not indexed.” That hasn’t happened to me in weeks. It made me wonder if Google is recalibrating around the sudden disappearance of the old domain and the appearance of a completely new one.
Summary of what I found
Based on what I saw, the RV Hall of Fame has launched a new website, the old one is suspended, and there doesn’t seem to be a redirect or migration in place. That would explain the missing information, the authority reset, and why Google might be slow to index anything related to it. Hopefully it gets sorted out soon, because right now it looks like a full reset of all the site’s SEO value.
I work adjacent to the RV industry, and I was supposed to write a blog post today about the RV Hall of Fame. I visited the museum, took photos, made notes, and then came home to pull some background information. When I went to check the original site, it showed an account suspended page. That caught my attention, because the old site had been up for years and had a lot of content on it.
Checking the old site and seeing the suspended notice
The old URL loaded a suspended account message instead of the usual pages. I don’t know the exact moment it went down, but it was recently functional. They posted on Facebook today announcing a new website, which lined up with what I was seeing. So I started comparing what changed.
Missing Northern Indiana Event Center pages
On the new site, I couldn’t find any information labeled under the Northern Indiana Event Center. Instead, the same space appears to be listed as the East Wing Convention Hall. The photos match, so it looks like a renaming. Since the old site is suspended, there’s no way to double-check the previous descriptions or see how it was originally presented.
Comparing authority between the old and new domains
I checked SEMrush out of curiosity. The old domain had more than 13,000 backlinks and an authority score of 32. The new domain has zero authority, zero backlinks, and no ranking history. It looks like the old site was taken offline without redirecting anything to the new one. If that’s the case, all that domain authority just disappeared.
Google taking longer to index RV Hall of Fame pages
I submitted a few of my own RV Hall of Fame pages for indexing after I uploaded them. Normally Google indexes my new posts within about fifteen minutes. Today they didn’t. Hours passed and they were still sitting in “crawled but not indexed.” That hasn’t happened to me in weeks. It made me wonder if Google is recalibrating around the sudden disappearance of the old domain and the appearance of a completely new one.
Summary of what I found
Based on what I saw, the RV Hall of Fame has launched a new website, the old one is suspended, and there doesn’t seem to be a redirect or migration in place. That would explain the missing information, the authority reset, and why Google might be slow to index anything related to it. Hopefully it gets sorted out soon, because right now it looks like a full reset of all the site’s SEO value.
Published November 14, 2025.
Written by Corky Lorenz.
Notes and observations based on an in-person visit to the RV Hall of Fame in Elkhart, Indiana earlier the same day.
Information reviewed:
public Facebook post about the new website
old domain returning a suspended account page
SEMrush data showing historical authority
new domain performance at time of writing
Current official site: TheRVHallOfFame.org
Corky Lorenz
November 15, 2025