Then the faster my website loads and if it is not down then that will improve it's rank in Google?Web hosting Indirectly help you in SEO. A better web hosting company can give you good network uptime and your website load fastly. Google loves sites that are loading fastly. So, Web hosting is help you indirectly In Your SEO. However there are some other ranking factors, which will impact your site Rankings.
Why does Google have the load times and uptime of your hosting affect you and your website? Those are out of your control.Vishwa gave you a great answer. Web hosting can help your SEO indirectly for many reasons but the main ones are usually uptime and the load times of your web pages.
If your website has a lot of downtime and is slow then when Google and the other search engines come to your site to crawl it they will learn of this and it can have a negative affect of the rankings of your website.
Having a good host that has great uptime and fast web servers that your website is on can give an SEO boost. It is usually only a slight one unless there is a drastic change one way or another in uptime and load speed.
Always try to use a good quality web host!![]()
Then if you have a really fast loading website you can have your website be closer to the top of the search results just for that?Google loves sites that are loading fastly.
So your website will actually go farther down the search results just because of downtime? That doesn't seem like that should matter because the downtime is the web hosting company's fault usually.If your website has a lot of downtime and is slow then when Google and the other search engines come to your site to crawl it they will learn of this and it can have a negative affect of the rankings of your website.
It is one of the thousands factors that help you to rank your site in Search Engines. Making your site faster does not mean that you rank it well in search engines. But it will help you in your site SEO.Then if you have a really fast loading website you can have your website be closer to the top of the search results just for that?
ThanksIt is one of the thousands factors that help you to rank your site in Search Engines. Making your site faster does not mean that you rank it well in search engines. But it will help you in your site SEO.
How can you request googlebot to scan your website at different times? Is longer better for your website?It can go many hours/days (or even weeks if you've requested it) for GoogleBot to scan your site
How do I know which web hosts are bad?Based on my personal experience, web hosting can hurt you more than it can help you.
That being said, always avoid the bad web hosts at all costs. I learned that from experience like many other people.
How can I tell how long my site takes to respond for Google?As long as Google get some response from your website within a reasonable time of say 1-10 seconds (but of course, the faster, the better), then I don't think it matters what server location, IP, or provider you use.
That's not easy to be able to do sometimes. You just have to try to find out as much information as you can on any host that you are considering to use.How do I know which web hosts are bad?
How can you request googlebot to scan your website at different times? Is longer better for your website?
How do I know which web hosts are bad?
How can I tell how long my site takes to respond for Google?
Ok thank you. I will check for that.You should be able to do that in Google Webmaster Tools and sitemap / htaccess files.
How do I know which are good and trustworthy? Would the ones in the top Google searches be good?You just don't want to trust most of the review websites because many of them are not unbiased and will write good reviews based on financial gain reasons.
I checked in Pingdon as you suggested and it's loading in times between 2.20 and 2.56 seconds with 3 tests in that range. Is that an acceptable time?You can check that in Google Webmaster tools and check sites like Pingdom Tools and network speed test within Google chrome.
I was reading some blog posts about hosting and they said that hosting is important to the rankings of the website sometime.
Is this true and does the hosting have that much of an affect on how your website ranks in the search sites like Google?
How do I know which web hosts are fast? Is there a way to test their web hosting service to see how fast it actually is?Yes it does. You need to have hosting provider that does not compromise on speed. A fast host gives your website a boost in Google.