Switching server - does it effect site seo

I've got a .co.uk hosted in the US and a .com hosted in the UK

Both get traffic, I just moved the .com from the us to the uk a few weeks ago and have seen a positive increase in positioning on google.co.uk selecting the only sites from the uk option, that said the site is only a matter of months old and there are so many contributing factors and the esoteric nature of seo means I can't pin down which factor has bought in the results.

Gettting it right, in other words, not moving to a crap server in a country that isn't relevant to your traffic and not suffering any downtime isn't going to have a negative effect on your serps.

Just plan ahead, think it through and get it right first time with my original three point checklist, be prepared to run two concurrent hosting accounts or servers for a reasonable period for the transition and all should be good, backups backups backups and mabye for the sake of paranoi another backup. Databases, scripts, mail settings, logs the full works.

You're ony gonna get negative issues if you screw it up, keep your url structures the same, let dns propagation be the changover point and move it to a better server / host that's more relevant to your core audience and you should have no regrets.

It can be a daunting job but it can be done right and without any downtime.

I've got to move an old and pretty big site from box A to box B and I'm as exciting by it as a visit to the dentist!

Blowing the question up in scale, what about a site fully propagated through a CND? I guess subdomaining the country specific sites would be the way to go then there's the issue of duplicated content. Always fun and always a challenge eh?

 

You are obviously getting different results RE your version of Google then funkymario!

You (just as I) can get a rank for any London Borough and acronym SEO (Kensington SEO included) but as soon as I spot it I can knock it straight back down again using my own forum.

Seems to me US results and US Google data is completely different from whet I see here in the UK going by what you are saying!

I find it highly amusing you are so focused on one offhand example I mentioned though.

You will no doubt tell me "hire a search engine optimiser" Hire a SEO" or Commission SEO" or "commission a search engine optimiser" is equally irrelevant to you. Especially seeing as from your pint of view it has to be Optimizer and not optimiser!

All of which irrelevant of the Geo spelling matter only for about half a dozen searches ever if you get the right searcher finding you.

PS Sorry I have never watched a youtube vid and your link will not be my first viewing!

 

Dentists are daunting dude.

No reason to worry about where your server is though, as long as, as you say, it is reliable, though funkymario will rip in to me and disagree with that no boubt!

 

i am not interested in debating with you anymore, since i linked you to a video of Matt cuts answering this exact question, obviously you refuse to be "educated", and you think you know more than matt who is a google search engineer, you are not "teachable" and being teachable is critical in the SEO world where there are 400-500 algo changes per year, so there is no point in discussing anything with you. if you were teachable, you would at least watch the video, and explain to us why you "disagree" with a Google engineer, at least that would be a "constructive discussion"

i am out of here.

 

Yeah you know best funkymario MattCutts is God and always tells the truth as he has had NASA level 1 security clearance and Google totally ignores keyword meta tags 4SURE

2 other Google engineers say opposing info RE Google and the meta keywprd tag BTW! Still Google always "DO GOOD" and I cannot gain any education because I can't/don't watch youtube or other online vids!

 

Nice video, funkymario! I can confirm that if you do the moving of the servers properly, like transferring over all the assets to the new server, and update the dns, then google doesnt mind, publish a few fresh content also just after the switch, to see if that is getting indexed or not... You should have also submitted a sitemap to google.

 

yes it could affect you. I have seend migration going terribly wrong primarely due to broken links on the new platform.

I suggest you using a broken link checker to make sure that you have no issue once you switch.

this is a free one: www.orchidbox.com/tools/Broken_Links_Checker.php

 

broken links?? When you are switching the whole back up, how would this come into play?

 

LINK drop, DUH. You raised to it and quoted MR 9 posts and hyperlinked his spammy URL for him.....

Broken URLs are gonna be broked regardless of where the site is hosted or how it's moved, that post really just is a pointless link drop / detritus.....

Unless the site is moving from one domain to another in which case it's a valid argument for variable values rather than hard coded ones.

 

thanks man, i was actually wondering if this is a case best i do switch my site before it grown it up