Changing Hosts and IP address – impact on SERPS

DelMarSurf · 07-10-2006, 07:18 AM

I have some domains that need to be moved over to a new home, and will receive a new IP address. What is the impact on changing IPs? Some of the sites have good PR, and I hate to see them dry up.

Best - DEL

John Scott · 07-10-2006, 07:36 AM

No impact, I'm guessing.

timtom · 07-10-2006, 10:26 AM

Matt Cutts talks about it here http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/moving-to-a-new-web-host/

timtom · 07-10-2006, 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by timtom

Matt Cutts talks about it here http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/moving-to-a-new-web-host/

ok it appears his site is down...

Webfu · 07-11-2006, 02:35 AM

We've migrated a couple sites this year to new web hosts, on a new block of IP's. Two totally different websites over to completely different servers in different parts of the country. Both websites kept the PR and more importantly their good rankings in the SERPS.

It seems to have no impact on PR or rankings.

sji2671 · 07-11-2006, 08:03 AM

No impact as long as the physical location of your sites is not changing country whic hcan effect local results.

Sharpseo · 07-13-2006, 07:41 PM

I had a site go down while I was on vacation, because the host messed up a billing issue. The site had solid SE rankings. I switched it to a new host/IP as soon as I found out about the downtime (about 24 hours). The rankings never skipped a beat, held steady on all 3 major SEs.

manca · 07-13-2006, 08:18 PM

Changing an IP address for particular site shouldn't be having an impact to se rankings if done good.