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I am happy with current ranking (UK) and have seen posts where things have gone badly wrong when servers have been changed.
Therefore is it wise for me to change or would I be better getting another domain and having the .NET stuff (which is more interactive) on that whilst maintaining the pages I have now on this server?
I would prefer everything on one server for maintenence, stats etc. But I don't want to risk rankings.
Is this just Googlenoia?
I just moved my site from one server to another, and it took little more than 24 hours for Googlebot to transfer over. I have seen no difference in PR, rankings, or traffic after making the change.
I think as long as you leave the old site up and running in parallel until it stops receiving traffic that you won't have a problem.
Based on past experience and observation I'd rephrase that: "as long as you leave the old site up and running in parallel until it stops receiving traffic you minimize the chances of a problem."
<Based on past experience and observation I'd rephrase that: "as long as you leave the old site up and running in parallel until it stops receiving traffic you minimize the chances of a problem.">
Of course since absolutes are never absolutely true (except that one), I didn't take it to mean that there was absolutely a 0% chance of problems occuring :-).
