ive been wondering the same thing...if it would affect my rankings etc...been wanting to get rid of network solutions for a long time
Only if you are moving it to another PHYSICAL location Meaning if you are targeting the core US market with SEO - you'd want a US based server. Targeting the UK market? Use a server in the UK. So if you were ranking well in the US market with a US based server and then moved to a UK based hosting company - you can lose a whack of rankings. Other than that, merely moving the hosting won't have any adverse SEO effects....
Well gee.. that's a loaded question Big N ( nice to cya as well - I have been away from boards for a month or so). You see I also own a hosting company among my holdings - www.myoshosting.com and so I would be biased huh? Just DON'T use Go Daddy.. my developers have more problems there than anywhere.... Our servers are in Texas... even tho I am in Canada.. We target the US (google) market with our stuff..... Let me know if ya want some hosting and I can set ya up... I am Da Boss .. he he
i think it will effect your seo. i have moved from one usa server to another usa server, my hits has decreased
I do not beleive moving from one server to another will effect your SEO with the exception of.. a) If the site was offline when the crawlers came by. This could result in your pages being dropped from the index and your keyword positioning dropping as well. b) Speed of the server. If it is slower to respond to requests it will result in less pages being crawled. Which in the long term results in more time having to be taken to get your complete site indexed. So be sure during the move your site remains online at all times. Once the site is migrated to the new server ensure the site is working using the temporary URL. After confirming update the name servers for the domain followed by updating the DNS on the server side to point to the new hosting service. This will ensure all requests are forward to the new hosting account while the name server update is being propagated. If you want help moving your site to a new host don't hesitate to PM me.
if we are still in the same webhosting but we upgraded our bandwith and space package, it won't affect anything, right?
No it would not as bandwidth is the amount of digital traffic being served by the server whereas throughput is the actual speed of the server itself. Updating the bandwidth does not affect the speed of the server. Upgrading space is specific to the account alone to allow more space to expand your sites content. Neither would have an effect on SEO or rankings.
I beleive moving from one server to another will effect your SEO if you don't do it properly. Even though you point to the new server .. there can be SE crawler visits to the old server... So you have to make sure the old hosting server also online for some time (2-3 days).. Also if you change your host very freequently... that will effect your SEO .
Note in my post above I had outlined updating the DNS on the current hosting server to point to the new hosting server once you have updated the name servers for the domain. Once this is done ANY and ALL requests made for the domain will be pointed to the new hosting account regardless of the status of the name servers. To be safe you do want to leave the old hosting service in place for a period of about 4-5 days to ensure the name server change has propagated correctly and all traffic is being directed to the new server. This will ensure the site is online and available for when the crawlers come for a visit and ensure all traffic is pointed and directed to the new hosting server rather then the old. Excellent method for site using databases. This ensures traffic and data is being directed to one server and not multiple servers during the propagation of the name servers. Which also ensures data is not lost during this time. Server migrations are my specialty. See http://www.scriptlance.com/cgi-bin/freelancers/feedback.cgi?p=everypcneed&all=1 for client reviews of my services in this area. It has to account for something here.