How Server Location Can Impact Rankings
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This might explain why I took a hit in the SERPS (and the time lag).
Sometime last year my blog was moved to a host server in Europe and my position in the search engines fell to the second page. I also noticed a lag in performance.
Maybe it wasn’t a coincidence after all.
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This is the first time I ever thought of or heard of this. That would surely suck to lose rankings over your server moving locations… I guess, it’s a good idea to ask your hosting provider some questions about their future plans.
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That sucks on so many levels but at the same time it would be understandable for local sites and businesses but besides that it sucks.
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@Jurrell Kemp, that’s an interesting observation but Google needs to differentiate between local businesses and not penalize the rest.
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Hi BB,
Are you pertaining to Google’s servers? I have 1 website that ranks well when I search on google.com.ph - which country I am located, and ranks different when I try to search on just google.com. Is that a different story?
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@Louie Sison, yes that’s what we’re talking about
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