changing hosting company

andy woolfe · Post by **andy woolfe** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:45 am

I am about to change my hosting company for my website, but before i do this can anyone tell me if this change will affect my positioning in the search engines.

ben_tambling · Post by **ben_tambling** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:38 am

AFAIK,, there will be no effect if you only change your hostings...

andy woolfe · Post by **andy woolfe** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:05 pm

not to sure about that as i have spoken to some other forums and have quite different responses, at the moment i am in total limbo with what to do.

peterko · Post by **peterko** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:20 am

I'm not sure, but IMO. Changing hosting company will lead to the change of IP Address. As far as I know IP Address is extremely important when the search engines make their SERP.

So, what I assume, you might tempererly drop your SERP with the search engines, but you'l get it back soon. Once again, IMO.

Have a great day,
Peter

andy woolfe · Post by **andy woolfe** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:58 pm

This is my problem i am not only changing my host server but i am also changing the whole look of my site,
I know that my site will be search engine friendly but i am not sure about the hosting server,
should i add the new site and server together under a different domain name and then after a few months change the domian name or should i just add the new site to a new hosting server with the old domain name, dialemers what should i do.

peterko · Post by **peterko** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:17 am

andy woolfe wrote:This is my problem i am not only changing my host server but i am also changing the whole look of my site,
I know that my site will be search engine friendly but i am not sure about the hosting server,
should i add the new site and server together under a different domain name and then after a few months change the domian name or should i just add the new site to a new hosting server with the old domain name, dialemers what should i do.

You raised a tricky question. I don't know the answer. But it seems to me if you add the new site and server together under a different domain name and then after a few months change the domian name that will look very artificial for the search engines. They will keep your content in the cache for a while under the old domain, then the same content will appear under the new domain, it might look as duplicate. Very, very iffy. IMO.

Have a great day,
Peter

andy woolfe · Post by **andy woolfe** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:20 am

Thats what i thought, i would probably end up getting penalised for duplicate site material i think i am going to just have to take a drop in rankings whilst i change things over, as i can't really see any other option.

peterko · Post by **peterko** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:16 pm

andy woolfe wrote:Thats what i thought, i would probably end up getting penalised for duplicate site material i think i am going to just have to take a drop in rankings whilst i change things over, as i can't really see any other option.

I just expressed my opinion, using what I think is common sense. It doesn't mean I'm right.
Someone else might have different opinion, or other idea.

Have a great day,
Peter

andy woolfe · Post by **andy woolfe** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:07 am

Yes i fully understand that and i am thankfull for your opinion, nobody else seems to want to give this problem any further advice so i guess i will just have to go with my gut feeling.

weblaunchphxx · Post by **weblaunchphxx** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:18 am

There is no problem with changing your hosting company.But you have to use 301 redirect for your new host.For detail process for redirect see:
http://www.isitebuild.com/301-redirect.htm

andy woolfe · Post by **andy woolfe** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:32 am

Thanks for that, the information you have gave me is really helpfull.

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