moving domain

IP adress change

[pardo]

First let me start by wishing everybody a very happy new year in good health. And many great serp's...;) ofcourse!

We are in a period of moving our domain to a new webserver where we will get a different IP-address. We just been deepcrawled for the first time yesterday after starting mid december and only visiting before by the Freshbot.

What will be the impact and chances for our results in Google?

[Birdman]

If you can keep the old ip live for awhile, it would be good. You can then put a permanent redirect up on the old ip sending bots and users to the new ip and also tells bots to use new ip from then on.

Hope that helps some. I'm not an expert, but there will probably be one along shortly.

[tbear]

Hiya, I had an IP change in november (kinda suddenly :( ) which knocked things for six a little. By december things were slowly crawling back into place. Now we're back up to and above last years hit levels. I don't think IP changes are too serious assuming you use the same domain name.
But then again I'm no expert ;)

[sem4u]

Google usually follows the domain name and not IP address so you should be okay.

We changed an IP address late last year and Google seems to have found the new one easily enough.

Just my 2 cents :)