This may not actually be true but a few days ago I posted about how I was moving my server from a US host to a UK host. Because my site had bounced about the serps for over a year, most of the time completely out of sight, I wondered if the change in host would make google re-assess me…
I had a feeling something would happen as google had a little sniff of the new host. In fact, I was hoping it would. Today I checked SERPs and the site has indeed re-appeared on page 1 for lots of target terms. I’m guessing it’ll stay there for a day or so as google has a good look through the site and then decides to spit it out again.
Maybe this suggests that its something on my site that’s causing it to get dumped each time…it’s flicking some kind of algorythm check somewhere. The site is a wordpress site. I wonder if I just change the theme to the default theme if it’ll make any difference…
March 19th, 2011 at 8:44 pm
I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you, let us know how it turns out
March 23rd, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Hi. I too am interested to know how this goes as I may move servers myself soon and wondered what impact that may have on traffic.
Kind regards,
Mike
May 7th, 2011 at 7:04 pm
How is it going after a few months of the new server?
July 14th, 2011 at 9:38 am
Hi Guys,
I’ve been away for a little while but I can now say with a greater degree of certainty that moving servers gave me a temporary boost in my rankings for about 5 days but then the problems that existed with the site inherently made it drop back out.