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 Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:59 am Post subject: Does switching providers affect Google standings? |
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I have a client that I'm trying to convince to move his site to a new and better host but he's VERY concerned that any move to a new host will affect his Google ratings.
Right now if you do a find on his name in Google his site comes up first.
He's worried that if we change service providers that he will have to start over again in making his way up through the ratings.
He's concerned about this because for some reason the last time he changed providers he sudddenly vanished from Google altogether and had to go through a bunch of hoops to get reinstated there. I think it must have been a coincidence, but I don't know enough about it.
Does anyone know how switching providers might or might not affect the Google rating?
I need to be sure. He's a musician and he's got a new album coming out in January and if I convince him to switch providers and he loses his Google standing he will kill me. |
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eukhost.com
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:26 am Post subject: |
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As far as I know, switching hosts once should not affect the site's ranking as your content and link backs are same even after you change your host.
Move it loads of times and it might raise some kind of flag though. Also due to geo-targetting, changing hosts can have some effect on rankings depending on the location of the new server.
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David E
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:54 am Post subject: |
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Try and do it quickly, you don't want your site to be down for more then a few days, as long as you do this your rankings will not be affected.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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Your website address (ip) does not affect how search engines look at your site.
However, I have found out that if your site is slow to get to then lot of search engine spiders will give up indexing most of your site.
Google rating will not be affected at all even if your site is down for a few days or weeks. The information in googles database of your pages is not the key factor that determines how well your PR is. your PR factor is based on many factors and hosting is just one, googles index of your site is another, links pointing to your site from relavant sites is yet another and so forth.
So tell, your good client not to worry and show them this page.
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sheepcentral
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| Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:12 am Post subject: |
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It says somewhere in Google's webmaster section that you should have an overlap of about a day. This is so that DNS changes have a chance to propogate. On the overlap day you should change the domain to point to the new host. Then after that day you can stop hosting the site on your old host. That should insure that nothing is changed in Google's eyes.
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