I am planning to move our DNS to new hosting, but worry re: our SEO ranking will be jepordized; is that a valid concern?
-
If moving to new hosting causes SEO loss, what can be done to mitigate loss in SEPR?
-
Thank you for all the responses! I feel confident going forward with the move & am happy to not be linked to our former SEO company, with expensive hosting. My web builder and I have been doing our own SEO, for over a year, with MOZ reports & I couldn't be happier. Being able to have this forum is invaluable!
-
Agree with Cole. I always do a site:mydomain.com and manually click through all the pages to make sure everything matches. Also, monitor your Google Webmaster Tool to see any issues. Even if you launch and have some issues, as long as you fix them quickly, you won't see much loss if any. Good luck!
-
We switched from Network Solutions to Bluehost awhile back. Our serps improved, and we had no problem SEO-wise...but, we paid to have bluehost do the migration for us ($100). If I had to do it myself, there could definitely have been problems. If you aren't very comfortable with migrating the site, then paying someone else to do it for you could be a way to mitigate any potential loss.
Happy Migrating!
Ruben
-
If you are not changing your domain, I dont think you have much to worry about. If the new host is faster, it should help both your SEO, and more importantly your users experience.
-
Moving a site is always a valid concern, double check your redirects (both pages and media - such as images and pdfs) and double check your on-site optimization.
Hope this helps.
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Is image SEO worth it for e-commerce?
I have been trying to find any case studies of people who have optimized images for SEO for their e-commerce website, but haven't been able to find any case study, indicating obtained results. I am wondering how much increase in Google Image search traffic others have been able to obtain when optimizing their e-commerce images for image SEO. I need this information to justify development resources needed for for example an image sitemap, changes to file names and alt texts, title tags and possibly EXIF data. File size is already ok. Hope someone has experience with this and can share some results. Also, would be great if Moz would do a Whiteboard Friday about this 🙂 (hint!).
Whiteboard Friday | | DocdataCommerce0 -
How to rank a keyword?
My competitor has158 ranking keywords but has only 30 anchor texts on his all backlinks. i am only ranking for 2 keywords , how do i increase ranking keywords? whats the strategy?
Whiteboard Friday | | calvinkj0 -
Should ebook content be a download or hosted on site for SEO?
We have written ebook(s) on subjects of interest to our prospects (B-C market). We have taken many recurring questions asked over the years plus helpful graphics and put into short 12+ page ebooks. After filling out form to receive ebook- (first name & email on form) for any option below- Should we: a) send them to Landing page to download ebook to their desktop? b) send them e-mail with link to download ebook? c) send them directly to page on our site with the ebook content? d) something else? My thoughts are to do c) which will put content on site, though 'protected' via gate. This way the search engines can crawl the content. However, if that content is not directly reachable through menu will that degrade the importance of that content? Obviously we want to provide good, helpful information to prospects. We would also love to benefit from that content from a Search point of view if possible. Anyone have experience with this through A/B test or otherwise? Thanks, Steve
Whiteboard Friday | | PhotographerSteve0 -
Local SEO Citation Questions
I have checked out some great resources from Rand and others here on SEOMoz, as well as some other great articles written on YouMoz by you guys! I have two questions when it comes to citations for Local SEO though. I have heard that Google does not really take the address into consideration when indexing local citations. Instead it is a combination of the business name + phone number + area code. On one hand this makes a lot of sense as far as Google crunching all the information. You can achieve a fairly accurate citation with just those three things and still weed out a lot of the "brand mentions" as citations. However this conflicts with a lot of what I have been reading and watching as far as whiteboard Fridays and blogs here on SEOMoz. Can someone provide some insight or sources concerning this? Secondly, in case of SEO and Web Design companies, such as ourselves, who do not receive the "One Box" for Google localized search, do citations play any lesser role in ranking for localized seo keywords? I am not sure if there is a definitive answer to these questions or if they are open ended. Regardless any insight would be invaluable!
Whiteboard Friday | | KesilConsultingLLC0 -
SEO Implications when domain ownership and branding changes
I have a couple questions for the SEOMOZ community - and/or it's leader, Rand, if at all possible 🙂 It is very important for us to have good information. Scenario: Company A: National established leader in a niche product currently receives 49% of their traffic from branded keywords. Company A wants to protect and further grow it's gains that have been made in SEO even after it is acquired by Company B. Company B: Is a much larger company that acquires Company A. 1. What could happen to Google rankings when company A is bought out and Company B changes the registered owner and whois record? Could Google see this as a signal that the ownership has changed and then re-evaluate the ranking of Company A's website? 2. What would most likely happen if company B were to change the branding of Company A's established website? Company A currently receives about half of it's traffic from branded keywords. The acquiring company may want to change some of the SEO titles, ALT-Text, H1 tags, etc to also promote itself on the acquired company's site. Thank you all in advance for your help!
Whiteboard Friday | | follr0 -
GEO TAG Images for local SEO
Hello, In the pro webinar "All About Google Places – Do’s, Don’t, Best Practices and More" Benu recomends to geo tag pictures. I'm bad with coding and using joomla. Can somebody give me a step by step guide ? For now I use this code: What do I have to ad? I want to have the picture asociated with barcelona. What do you recomend? Use regional code Microformat I found this in wikipedia ; In case you recomend me to use this. Where does it go exactly? Thanks for help
Whiteboard Friday | | igrizo0 -
Connecting SEO with Your Clients Objectives
Hi Guys, This question is specifically towards trying to make the connection between achieving clients objectives based on your SEO initiatives. Google Universal SERP's tends to make me try to think towards devising more of an online strategy rather than a specific SEO strategy. Whilst obviously social, video, content marketing and all that is increasingly important channels. I think it makes our actions based on trends rather than what matters most for the site to be visible - gain traffic & links (but not limited to this). Questions: 1. What framework or thought process do you use when devising a tailored SEO strategy for your clients? 2. How do you translate all onsite SEO initiatives off-site? I know there is no one fits all answer, however I would truly like to seek the SEO experts out here. Please use your example (not mine) as I think it will best help you answer this question. Note: No reference to the digital marketing framework by Avinash, I am already familiar with this. I have also not made this as a discussion, as I would truly like to get feedback from successful SEO's. Thank you for your answers in advance, Vahe
Whiteboard Friday | | Vahe.Arabian1 -
Local SEO- Multiple businesses at one address
Rand was talking about the importance of address format being exactly the same across all citations in last week's WBF http://www.seomoz.org/blog/local-seo-checklist-for-new-sites-whiteboard-friday. But what about business name? I have two unrelated businesses at the same address and am in the process of updating/adding citations for each. Will duplicate citations (identical addy, different business name) harm my Places ranking? Any suggestions? David
Whiteboard Friday | | watkinsheating0