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What Would Happen If I Change My IP Address?

by BarryOnline
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If I had a site ranking on page one of Google & I changed my IP address what do you think would happen?

Would my site drop from the rankings?

Or would nothing happen?

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Hi Barry,

    You can change your IP address without concern, as long as your website remains operational while you make the transition.


    As long as your URL stays the same, your site's listing in Google shouldn't be affected if you switch hosting companies or change your IP address. We recommend migrating a site to a new IP address with the following steps:
    1. Bring a copy of your site up at the new IP address.
    2. Update your nameserver to point to the new IP address.
    3. Once you see search engine spiders fetch pages from the new IP address (typically within 24-48 hours), it's safe to take down the copy of your site at the old IP address.
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  • Profile picture of the author Elion Makkink
    Yes if you follow dburk's method you should be fine. I can't see why you would drop because Google's algorithm's are based on your site, backlinks etc. and not your IP.
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  • Profile picture of the author BarryOnline
    Good to know, thanks.

    I have quite a few new sites planned for 2011 & I've been Concerned about some of the horror stories you hear about bunches of sites that are running off the same IP being de-indexed by Google, obviously I want to avoid this.

    My hosting company offers the change of an IP address for a small annual fee so I may just do this with the sites that are making the most money.

    Just to make things a little safer.
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    • Profile picture of the author miranon
      Originally Posted by Barry$ View Post

      bunches of sites that are running off the same IP being de-indexed by Google...
      Google knows about your sites also via adsense, webmaster tools, analytics and Google tracking cookies. So if you are using some of these, changing the ip will not help much.
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      • Profile picture of the author BarryOnline
        Originally Posted by miranon View Post

        Google knows about your sites also via adsense, webmaster toold, analytics and Google tracking cookies. So if you are using some of these, changing the ip will not help much.
        Thanks for pointing that out

        I'm not using adsense or webmaster tool but I do use Google Analyitics.

        If I split some of my site over a few Google Analyitics accounts would that be fine?
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    • Profile picture of the author Jacob Martus
      Originally Posted by Barry$ View Post

      Good to know, thanks.

      I have quite a few new sites planned for 2011 & I've been Concerned about some of the horror stories you hear about bunches of sites that are running off the same IP being de-indexed by Google, obviously I want to avoid this.

      My hosting company offers the change of an IP address for a small annual fee so I may just do this with the sites that are making the most money.

      Just to make things a little safer.
      If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about. The horror stories usually come from people walking the line so to speak.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbsb
    I've done an IP swap this year and can confirm if you follow standard cutover procedures (as described above) you should be fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author gtk29
    When you change the nameservers, it takes few hours for this to take effect. But this time depends on your domain registrar. Some of them are real sloppy and it takes 3-4 days.
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