Will changing hosts cause any SEO concerns?



Fernando C from Spain asks: “We are a pretty big site. We are changing our hosting company in the next few weeks (same country). Should we be scared from an SEO perspective?”

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14 thoughts on “Will changing hosts cause any SEO concerns?”

  1. BUT use common sense. What if your new host is unreliable? If your new host has too much downtime or a bad reputation, logically that factors into user experience. Bad neighborhood effect. We sent X people to this IP and Y% of them gave up waiting for the server and clicked something else. Multiply X and Y and you have a math problem and a business problem. Google draws the line somewhere. Good advice about keeping both servers online. Otherwise you lose some percentage of business.

  2. @ssinnal … AFAIK with Flash CS4 there are several options set improve SEO for flash site.
    But I would not totally count on that. If your Flash Content is delivered via Database or XML, you may should also deliver the content in that way.

    Any further info on that would be to technical for you I guess.

  3. the most important part of the answer was at the beginning of the video. All the rest is in my opinion just a tech tip to make sure your site has no "interruption" while changing hosts.

  4. I second this thought Mike.

    The only reason Matt is even talking about TTL and switching is that if your site is not proper reachable for google bots because they get the wrong site (maybe with old content or no site at all).

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