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Re: Web Host Choice and Search Engine Ranking

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:19:46 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>__/ [Terry] on Tuesday 18 October 2005 03:35 \__
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Does search engine ranking have anything to do with which company hosts
>> the site?
>
>
>Fallacy.  If you are on a shared server that involves many poker,
>pills and sex sites, you are likely to be panelised based on some
>recently-filed  patents,  which may or may not  imply  something.
>This,  in fact, is the reason why there are hosts that are desig-
>nated for sites with 'filthy' content.
>
>
>> Say if I have a site hosted by Yahoo and it ranks pretty high at Yahoo
>> for targeted keywords.  Then, if I switch the site's host to a different
>> reputable host, will that change the rankings in any way at Yahoo?
>
>
>It could. If both places contain the same information, be sure to
>re-direct  from the old to the new (in various places), thus  in-
>forming  the crawlers that there is a migration -- neither a mir-
>ror nor content scraping.

Um, I should have mentioned that, I suppose, as it is something you
should be doing if when you move (in general) you'll be taking your
site with you. 

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