domain on a fast server gets better SEO / SERP? if someone change the site for a better server, lets say VPS or even a dedicated server. Can they assume that it will do better on SEO/SERP ? i mean, is that a fact? you are on Shared host and are on #2 for some keyword. Do the speed on the server can be a influence? many tks
As long as the domain name stays the same you won't see any changes. Speed of the server only benifits your visitors not SERPs.
Good question, I am not sure, but made a few "strange" observations lately. Working as a SEO I decided beginning of this year to offer my own hosting service for clients. Most of them change hosting to my server when their existing contract expires and I can observe a slight improvement in rankings after hosting changes that can't be explained with any other reason (as I control SEO), but I am still not sure if the server changes are really responsable for this changes.
I really doubt it, crawlers can only read text anyways so they can read most pages in milliseconds. If you monitor your server traffic logs you'll notice you never see GoogleBot pinging your site
First of all you need to make sure that your site is slow on this shared hosting, some shared hosting providers are really good. It happened to me in the past that I had a website hosted on a VPS .. and running out of resources (it was really very slow and down for 1 hour/day some days) .. after moving the website to a dedicated server, the search engine traffic significantly increased
It just seems like it did, due to the downtime and inaccessability you were losing visitors, your just seeing what you should of been getting. That simple.
Depends how slow the server is actually. If the server/host if very slow it may couse google spiders to override and not be abble to crawl it and thus penalize your site as being down. But if its a decent server it only makes a very minor difference!
My post makes perfect sense. Not all are english here and I'm not sure override is the most appropriate word but my whole point is that if the host if too slow it will make google spider not load it and will not be ablle to crawl it and thus the site may get penalized as being down.
Maybe you should review this thread on Google Bot and Timeouts some nice answers from Google employees. http://groups.google.com/group/Goog.../8b6b02cdc8583973/4ff1cf0124c66a5b?lnk=gst&q=
I dont think server speed will help in SERPS, server location on the other hand may help, i recently changed from a UK to a US server and my SEPRS went up, maybe a coincidence but im sure your better off with a US server.
That is true, there is much belief in the SEO community that server location plays part in results. Obviously if you hosted your server in Japan it would effect your Google.com results. How much increase did you get and how competitive was the keyword\phrase?
Wouldn't it be possible you might have some scripts that are preloading before your text? In that case, if those scripts massively slow down your site - that may affect serps. Other than this, it shouldn't directly affect SERPS. But it's definitely indirectly affecting. People don't like slow sites. Less visitors = less chances of links to your site = lower SERPS. So yeah, indirectly it will affect SERPS in the long run.
You're working as an SEO and you're telling people that the speed of hosting makes a difference? I don't know how you have the nerve to charge clients for your 'services' The only way hosting influences SEO is if the server is down which would prevent indexing.
It depends which SERPs you're targeting, if you want to rank in Google.com then being hosted in the US is better. If you want UK customers from Google.co.uk, then it's better being hosted in the UK.
It could help but not really. A slow server may create slow loading code, which googlebot may give uo with. It will also mean you get a dedicated IP address so won't be in the same neighbourhood as potential bad websites.
Depends.... If you are on the first few ranks for a competitive keyword and gets almost 10000+ pageviews in a day then a slow server with a large number of websites on it can slow down your site, of course you loose certain repeat visitors, still if you have great content, then visitors wont mind hanging on for a while