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I am new of this forum. I am writing from Italy.
I have a question: if I change my server provider, I loose
my very good rank in Google?
Thanks in advance
You should not loose your rancking just for changing server provider. (if it is done smoothly)
One thing you have to pay attention to is keeping the old site up and runing until all spiders find the new site.
No, you won't as long as you keep the same domain name.
Avoid changing your hosting just before the Deep Crawl to allow enough time for the DNS entries to propagate worldwide.
Ciao ;)
Dan
thanks a lot for answering!
Night_Hawk, thanks!
:)
I don't change the domain name, only the hosting.
Deep Crawl?!
Is it the spider of Google?
How can I know when it will visit my site?
I just changed servers, with a new IP address and all, and all the spiders found it within five days. Google seemed to take the longest, by the way. Inktomi and Fast made the change on the same day as the server switch.
Just be patient with Google and they'll find you.
A search on "Deep Crawl" on this site will tell you a lot about it, as well as "FreshBot" or "everflux"
In a few words, the so-called "Deep Crawlers" are the robots doing the full indexing of your site. You may find those in your log files as their IPs are always starting with 216.238 This happens monthly and last for a few days. We are all waiting for them to show up really soon now ;)
The fresh crawlers are the robots visiting some sites at regular intervals, sometimes many times a day, that will update the index with "fresh entries".
Their IP always start with 64.68...
Dan
<edit>corrected typo</edit>
