Can changing your webhost effect your Adsense?

I've searched around a little before posting this and haven't found much of anything, so I wanted to pick the DP brains here...

I have a bigger hub who is wanting to host my website, if I move my main site over to their hosting, does it screw around with things on the back end with Adsense?

It's taken me quite some time to get decent paying ads and search engine traffic built up, and I don't want some DNS type thing jacking up the rhythm. Any thoughts on this?

 

Shouldn't have any problems if done correctly. The worst cast scenario is downtime for a day, I think. I recently did likewise and didn't have any downtime at all, and Adsense ad relevancy remained the same.

 

The types of ads and their value should not change or go down. From a general SE perspective, your traffic may take a hit a few weeks after the change. It will take a week or two for the SE's to figure out you moved IP addresses. And that can either hurt or help you.

Things like is that a shared IP, what else is hosted or was hosted from that ip. Do you have any sites on that IP that are currently linking to you? If so that will hurt because they are on the same box, whereas before the links were from different ip's = higher link value.

You should only switch hosts if:
1. You are having major downtime with your current host.
2. Going dedicated and you support the box.
3. Your current host does not support a new technology that you need.
4. You can no longer afford the hosting fee.

I'd say stay with what you have until one of those four things happens.

 

Thanks guys--

In my case, it was a large webcomics host/company looking to have my comic move to their service under their label (which would help traffic and increase readership) but they have to have it on their servers I guess.

I have heard about people's earnings going down when they move servers, so I'm a little worried about that.

 

Hunh, that's er, kinda weird. You ever wonder why do they want so much control over your comics?

 

changing a host has no problem at all. The problem is when you change a domain.

 

Probably because they'd be paying me! heh.

No, actually, they have a network system setup, where ads are served through their system site wide, then revenue split with the creators, so it works out nice on that end, but for their advertisers and stuff, and the amount of traffic they're dealing with, they have to make sure they control everything on their servers.

It would actually help my comic out a lot I think, readership wise.