Can you explain this a little further. When I changed initially, server change went from germany, to US and then back to germany....over the course of one week. Google traffic has died, other SE's have stayed the same or risen.
What you need to do is mask it so you don't really see any down time... keep the old hosting going until the move and dns move is complete... and i would say keep the old server on for like a week or so after the move ...
thanks dude......i think dat der is no problem due to change in server n ip n all.....i think d server might be slow...!!
fishfinder asked Google considers that sites with a generic TLD (.com,. net,...) are located in the country where they are hosted. So, if you have a site .com hosted in the USA and moved it to Germany, Google found your geographical market target has changed to Germany. if your site is in English, you may lose a lot of traffic since SERP's in Germany are mainly for sites in German language. In order to keep your traffic unchanged from the USA, you may select USA as geographical target in your google webmaster tool account. You cannot select more than one country. sonnenhohl asked As for sites with a country TLD (.co.uk,...) , google considers these sites have this country as geographical target. So hosting your site .co.uk in the UK does not change/improve your geographical target. If you are looking for another country target, you have no choice but buying a new domain name since moving your site .co.uk to the other country does not help and webmaster tool is not available for change in this case.
Server's location is one in the set of factors Google uses to decide if your site is relevant for queries from different regions. German IP will help ranking in Europe's datacenters, US IP - in US and so on. As for migration back during the week... It looks strange for me - why you need it, and probably G takes this strangeness in consideration too. IMHO it will affect ranking as soon as G-bot visit your site.