Changing Web Hosts and SEO..

[WM-Scott]

I want to change Web Hosts but am hesitant because I'm afraid it might affect my SEO. Has anyone changed Hosts, and what effects did it have?

[rookiethomas]

there are tons of tutorial on how to chage web site hosting companies without losing any thing...and if done correctly there will be no ill effects.

[HTMLBasicTutor]

Changing web hosts shouldn't affect your SEO if done properly. Assuming all you are doing is moving the site to a new web host (i.e. not changing domain name or urls):

1. Get your new hosting
2. Upload the website to your new hosting account
3. Get the DNS (domain name server) info from the new hosting account
4. Go to your domain registration account
5. Enter the new DNS info
6. Stock answer is 24-48 hours for all domain name servers to "catch up"
7. Once you have confirmed everything is ok at the new location (make a little change to a page or put a comment in the coding to make sure you are seeing the new location) cancel the old hosting

Using this method the move will appear like nothing has changed.

Also, if there is a problem you just change the DNS info back to the old location till you figure out what went wrong.

[Puripong]

If the IP you are going to change it in the same geolocation / country then it will not has any effect. I would recommend you to aware of this change. If you are targeting to Google.com and already has IP based in US. When you have changed IP from US to other country / continent then your ranking in Google.com would be suffered.

[seomarketingcompany]

If you are taking same service as before then it does not affect.

[websiteguy]

there is no affect on seo, have a good backup and migrate to new host, you can request to support to help you in migration too
good luck

[EvcRo]

No effect on SERP. Even more, if your new host is faster, you will see some benefits soon. Google doesn't like (very) slow sites.

[Hafsoh]

Moving from one host to another does not affect SEO. However, if you are not careful enough and you fail to follow instructions your sites could face risks of defeating your SEO.
Downtime is commonly the major issue you may face when you change to a new web host, during downtime, search engine spiders fail to crawl your site’s web pages and thus affect your pages’ SERP ranking when the search engine begins to re-index all downloaded pages by spiders to provide fast searches

[HTMLBasicTutor]

Originally Posted by udtek1

Risk is always exist. You'd better not change website host.

Why not?

Did you read this? http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/...ml#post1354779

[Car rental]

You can just Google it and you can find the best answer for your problem..

[bestynuan]

i chjanged my website hosting before and nothing has changed