My blog http://thegadgets.net has 250+ posts and has been aground for 6 months now but receives only 200 visitors a day at average. My friends have blogs of similar age and less number of posts but have 3-4k visitors a day. My blog also appeared on digg front page two times! I looked at all SEO aspects and the only difference I found is that I am hosting at "Tailor Made Servers" and they are on famous hosts like bluehost, dreamhost or hostgator. Does thing really matter? Will it help in SEO if I shift my site to bluehost or dreamhost?? :S
It really shouldn't matter.... The only concern might be if there are bad sites on your shared IP address.
250+ posts in 6 months? that works out at like 2 posts a day - is your content low quality? are you selling posts? either way, you might possibly be blogging too much, and users won't like this. if it's low quality or hugely duplicated content, search engines wont like it either.
It shouldn't matter where your blog is hosted, have you compared the number of backlinks that you have into your site compared to your freinds?
all you need to do is to host your site in the country where most your visitors come... dunno much about it, but i know it does count a bit. good luck !
It matters if you plan on building a lot of websites and building links between them. Backlinks should come from different IP addresses. Like mentioned above, if bad websites are on your ip, it can be bad. Other than that, no concerns
I also have read that you should host your site in the country where you want visitors. Also, if the hosting company has a lot of downtime - and the website is down when the spider crawls - that might count against you.
Instead of writing 2 short posts as I noticed you were doing, why not try spending the same amount of time writing one good post. A short post is going to be limited in organic search engine traffic because there is so little content to it. Try making them a bit longer and keyword rich and you will start to see your traffic go up. I used to write longer posts on my site when I enjoyed it and was just trying to get traffic to my site, now I write 200 word articles just to get my site crawled and stay in Google. If you're relying on Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, or other social bookmarking sites for traffic (or if your friends are), don't feel discouraged. In my mind, a sites only as good as it's search engine traffic. If they are getting tons of views from social bookmarking sites and it's really important to you that you beat them or get close to them, find some friends using these programs and do a +1 vote exchange with them to help boost your stuff.
GEo location hosting can "affect" your possition, depend where you want to rank, if you want to rank better for example in CAnada, the best option is host your site in CAnada, if you want to rank better in Uk, contract a hosting provider in UK, etc etc etc... Best regards, Jakomo
There is no matter that which company providing you hosting service, but the thing that service must be regular which can help us in website down time, As per view that your website down time is very high then it's effects in indexing process of your website. so take view this about this point and try to study about website down time in web hosting matter.
I would take a quick look and it looks like your IP is white listed, so this should not be the issue. I agree with @ItalianHawk who said to make your posts longer. I would extend the posts to 250-400 words each, that should really help you increase traffic.
I think There is no relation between your host and traffic... You can host your site on famous Hosting company or on your own VPS...
then try to host your site on a server in the US and target most of your traffic in europe (this way you will see what google thinks about your site) mine it's not getting more then 20 unique visitors/day now i am fighting to keep it up, but no chance. PR dropped from 3 to 0 and visitors dropped from 80-100 to 10-20 this is what bad hosting means
only thing that matters are getting different ips on different c classes if you plan to interlink your sites
Hosting and SEO do not have any relation,,can say the performance of hosting may effect SEO, taht also very little
Are your sites on similar subjects? If they are blogging about recent news and you are blogging about different ways to pair socks the demand for their content could be higher. It could be a ridiculous amount of different things... but your web host is not one of them.