If I change web hosting will it hurt my rankings?
- Thread starter JennyJ
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ulterios
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Changing web hosting services should not affect your rankings (usually) as long as you move your site properly and don't go changing anything important.
However, if you are moving from a host that has a lot of downtime, outages or is slow to a better hosting service then you might see a slight improvement depending on how bad things were before. This works the other way around also going from good to bad hosting.
However, if you are moving from a host that has a lot of downtime, outages or is slow to a better hosting service then you might see a slight improvement depending on how bad things were before. This works the other way around also going from good to bad hosting.
Rahul Sharma
Member
Changing hosting doesn't affects your SEO :
Take some precaution :
Location of the server-
Down time should be minimum
Buy hosting from a reputed company.
Take some precaution :
Location of the server-
Down time should be minimum
Buy hosting from a reputed company.
vishwa
Active Member
When you change your web hosting provider, make sure that you have done it properly. Take the backup of your website including files and database. Upload it to new host and change the necessary config files. After that change the name server of your domain to new host. You can also take help from your new web hosting provider.
Kania
Active Member
I don't think if you get new web hosting it will affect your rankings unless it is bad web hosting. I am going to change to different web hosting probably pretty soon because I am having too much downtime. I was reading about this same things and saw that it should not change if the new web hosting is good.
JennyJ
Member
I'm still trying to figure out how to tell if a new host would be better than my old one. The one I am at now has poor support and it's slow so that's a big deciding factor for me. I just wouldn't know if a potential host would be good or not.
Kania
Active Member
I do not know how to tell that myself. I guess you just have to try to get good advice from people or good reviews.
Dean
Well-Known Member
If you change web hosts it should only affect your rankings if you are moving to a service that is extremely slow or has a lot of downtime.
Other than that your rankings should stay the same. I have heard of people having a slight impact on rankings but they soon bounced back to what they were.
Other than that your rankings should stay the same. I have heard of people having a slight impact on rankings but they soon bounced back to what they were.
JennyJ
Member
I have seen some that offer that. My main concern is my rankings being affected by a move. I have read conflicting information on it.
Moving to a new host won't hurt my rankings tough will it?
JennyJ
Member
I did not think about the server location affecting my rankings. Thank you for bringing that up.
Marcos
Active Member
as long as you are not changing anything with your website and the new web hosting is just as good or better then it should not harm your website. I have heard that it may fluctuate in the rankings for a couple days after moving but then will return to it's place but I am not sure that is accurate.
JennyJ
Member
The only thing that I would be change was where my blog is hosted. I am keeping everything else the same for now.
Marcos
Active Member
Then you should not lose your rankings unless the hosting is bad.
JennyJ
Member
Thanks. I just still don't know how to tell if a host is good or bad without using their services.
Marcos
Active Member
It is not always easy to do but you can try checking and asking other people what they know about the hosting. Try to read about them and see if there is bad things posted on then. It can be hard.
JennyJ
Member
Finding accurate information on web hosting services is hard to find from what I have been reading. I might just ask about any one I think I may use.