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Hosting provider and SERP

by dabesa
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Hey Warriors,
Does anyone noticed a change in SERP after changing hosting provider?

Do you think that the hosting quality is used as an offline SEO indicator?

In other words, does Google give more credit to website served by high level hosting vs cheap hosting solutions?

Thanks
#hosting #provider #serp
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Things like uptime and location can impact your rankings. That's about as far as hosting can have an effect on rankings.
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    • Profile picture of the author dabesa
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Things like uptime and location can impact your rankings. That's about as far as hosting can have an effect on rankings.
      Thanks for the replies!

      Mike - can you elaborate on how location can affect the ranking?
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by dabesa View Post

        Thanks for the replies!

        Mike - can you elaborate on how location can affect the ranking?
        If your host is in Spain, you might rank better in Spain than in the U.S.
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        • Profile picture of the author paulgl
          It only matters to snake oil salesmen trying to pawn off
          some server junk.

          There is no truth to anything about different IP, VPN, or
          any other such rot. Just some rehash garbage making
          hosting resellers rich.

          The WF is on shared hosting. Something that many people
          just can't stomach.

          People have claimed that some hosts can be bad. Well, you
          get what you pay for. I have never, ever, ever, had anyone
          give me any instance where a name brand hosting service,
          like godaddy, hostgator, etc. has ever had any server be
          banned.

          What may affect your rankings, in addition to Mike A, after
          reliability, location, is how your server and sites were moved,
          and how the sites are now set up. All things being equal, if
          they were moved properly, it should not affect it. But certain
          scripts and databases may not properly function in 100% of
          the cases. This would affect your pages. This would only
          be a problem if you are moving from one host to another.
          Not just a different server, same host. Those changes should
          be smooth, or your host has no clue.

          A plain, nothing but html site/text would have no problem
          being moved. But there are a couple of server settings that
          could get mucked up. Like the default page when domain.com
          is typed in.

          A big site that uses mysql, php, asp, etc. may not function
          exactly the same on a different server/host. There are updates
          all the time, and some hosts are using old versions. The new
          server would need the capability to run those exactly as
          your old host used. It is rare, but not every server can run
          mysql and php. The old fashioned way was cgi scripts. For the
          most part any viable host would have everything updated.

          Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author angshuy2k
    Hi there,

    I have several sites in my VPS, dedicated server with unique IP and several sites in shared.

    For some reason, sites with dedicated ip with unique content and customer enageged content ranked faster with of course quality backlinks from where I get most of my traffic ( Targated traffic ) acutally made a difference but it is time consuming and took a lot of my time to optimize and market.

    Some of the sites took as long as 6 months but surely they are steady and as matter of time ( labour ) x my own cost = $350/month ( as low as ) depending on my niche.

    Hope this helps.

    Best wishes,
    Swrajit
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  • Profile picture of the author andrej
    Site loading time can have impact on your ranking. Make sure your website always loads quickly.
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