Can changing hosting provider negatively affect one's SERP's?

[jay88]

Can changing hosting provider negatively affect one's SERP's?

Sometimes it may take 2-5 hours for a DNS change to take effect, which means a site (it's domain) would be temporarily down for that time, could that make you look bad in Google if they happen to be spidering your site then?

[sundancerz]

no,

[Johan007]

Its more like 24 hours for DNS change to take effect.

[marthrock]

I would preface my statements with.....results may vary....and for us, the answer to your question is yes, it will affect your site rankings temporarily. Its happened to us on numerous occasions. The first 2 times was because we were changing providers and the site was down, the other times were when we were making changes to the site and the site was down, when yahoo actually was spidering us, the next thing you know our rank dropped and the caption for the site read that the site was down, but then during the next reindexing we were back up to our normal spot. and Actually, lately the DNS changes(for us) have been pretty quick and not the normal stated 24 hours...my 2 cents...so dont worry....

[hulkster]

I switched www.komar.org to ServerMatrix about 6 months ago - was minimal downtime as I left the old site up for a while ... never saw a change.

[tvcrazyman]

I've saw sites down for a week at a time still showing up in the index. What happened when they finally came back up I'm not sure. My sites go up and down wildly in Google no matter what happens. The msn and yahoo are always pretty stable.