I was just wondering if I move my domain to a new host (Different IP, same country, different town) whether this will have any effect on my Rankings and if anyone has had experience of this. I am even interested in small changes..
My first hour on here and 'the man" replying already, nice one! How do I transfer hosts and prevent downtime so that my results are not affected ? By the way, thanks for the 300 number 1s in Google you have helped me with already Also, when I search google for "master of the universe" and hit "im feelin lucky" button some guy called "He Man" comes up , but seeing what you are doing to ebay I will say no more on that. I wonder if G. will have to rewrite their algo if you managed somehow to take number 1 for ebay. Please excuse my forum ettiqute - this is first forum I have ever posted to !
Get a new hosting account, set everything up so it's working, then transfer the DNS to the new host, and leave the old one running for a week or so (that way there is an overlap for people/spiders using cached DNS data). That should be all you need to do.
I am doing the same thing, though with a forum that usually has someone logged in most of the time. I disabled the forum and notified the users, but I know sometimes DNS takes a while to propogate - can I do a temporary redirect to the new IP from the old server? Would this affect SERPs at all? I'm using UltraDNS, so if I switch DNS right now, it should be pretty fast. Basically my question is: Will a temporary redirect give me negative hit, and if not, which redirect is that again? EDIT: I updated my DNS and it propagated super-fast (at least to my work's names servers) in 5 minutes. Anyone know of any tools to verify propagation?
issue is some isps will cache dns for some time. many update their records once a day __________________ Satellite TV Offers
For the most part not true. Generally the rule of thumb is 86400 (seconds) or 8 hours. AOL is about the only one out there (there are a few others, but not many) that does not. Many use the default.. Sometimes less. Anyway, the best way to do things is to set your TTL's to 300 (5 minutes) 2 weeks in advance of any changes. So when you go to make your changes generally about 99.9999% of the world knows about the change.