can changing your web host effect your pagerank?

MrNuked · 18-11-2003 2:58pm #1

Because after changing to a very reputable hosting service, the google pagerank of my friend's site went down from 4 to 2. He added subdomains and a webchat page too though, so perhaps that's what caused the change?

mneylon · 18-11-2003 3:04pm

Google takes into account the IP address when it matches CNOs to countries, so that may have had an effect.

You should also consider that Google is currently undergoing a major update, so page ranks and search results are in a state of flux.

steve-hosting36 · 18-11-2003 3:28pm

It's also better to move mid-month, as Google spiders end/early month.

MrNuked · 18-11-2003 3:40pm

The site's about a band in London, and he changed from an English Hosting service to an Irish one. Wonder if the site containing the text London and having a London IP adress was having a positive effect?

mneylon · 18-11-2003 3:49pm

Originally posted by steve-hosting36
It's also better to move mid-month, as Google spiders end/early month.

No they don't.

steve-hosting36 · 18-11-2003 4:14pm

The higher PR site get spidered up to at least every few days; lower PR site and sites that do not change content can be greater than
monthly. Check your site logs to determine when the spider visits you, and at what frequency to be sure, for most sites, and in our experience, it is roughly at the end of each month.

tomED · 18-11-2003 4:38pm

Moving your site at a specific time of the month wont make any difference. Once you havent changed any of the site it should be a seamless swap. Changing of an IP address can make a difference as michele says - but I dont think that this is your problem.

I would give it a couple of days to let the new update settle in a bit. Then if it doesn't change back then start worrying.

Why not post the URL and we can do a little analysis for you, try and see if we can see whats goin on.

As for spidering, google is spidering MUCH differently than it used to. I have sites with PR's of 1 that get spidered everyday yet the sites listings only get updated once a month (if lucky)..........

There are many different theories on why this is happening, but no concrete evidence just yet!

MrNuked · 18-11-2003 4:40pm

www.sharpstone.net

cheers!

tomED · 18-11-2003 4:50pm

Yeah,

So far it just looks like you have lost all your backilinks.
Which has been happeneing sites everywhere since yesterday. The loss of backlinks decreases your pagerank.

Was the site down whilst changing over?

mneylon · 18-11-2003 5:09pm

Google tends to crawl our main site once every day or so. So far this month we've had 1050 hits from the Googlebots

MrNuked · 18-11-2003 5:12pm

He says it was down for 2 weeks

tomED · 18-11-2003 5:15pm

Originally posted by MrNuked
He says it was down for 2 weeks

Ah !!!

That will certainly not help his cause and is probably the cause of the drop in PR.

But just hang on in there for another few days - you might be lucky

Graham · 24-11-2003 2:07am

Dont concentrate on page rank, its only one of many factors google considers.

When it comes to Google, concentrate on content, content on content again. When you think you have added all the content you can, think again and add some more.

When it comes to search engines, they are all striving for one thing, return relevent content to users. The more content you have the more likely you are to be relevent.

There are "optimisation" methods you can try and use to increase your rankings in the search engines, but at the end of the day if your content isn't upto it, you'll be swimming against the tide.

can changing your web host effect your pagerank?

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