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Today I moved hosts and my ip's changed from .com to .co.uk
I am really worried this will affect my rankings, my site ranks REALLY well on some high searched terms and dont want this ip country change to affect things, my domain is still .com tho, its just the host that has changed.
Anyone had experience with this? Should my .com rankings stay the same? Thnx
I want to be 100% sure we're talking about the same thing, since ".com" and ".co.uk" are top level domain name extensions and not IP addresses.
1. If a site changes domains from a .com domain to a .co.uk domain, then they've actually got a new domain, even if the second level "token" remains the exact same character string. Such a site will almost definitely lose the rankings the old domain had for quite a few months.
But I noticed reading further into your post, you said that your domain is still a .com - I was just a bit confused by the opening sentence.
2. If you've changed to an IP address that is in a UK block, then that can still have some affect on your rankings, but nothing so drastic as a domain name change would.
You may find that you rank better in UK-based searches on google.com and on searches done on google.co.uk. But you may not rank quite so well in whatever country your old IP block was. This change in rankings can also be stabilized and softened by the geolocation of backlinks.
Hi
Yeah, I meant the dns settings I had to change when I changed host, my old ones were .com ones and new ones were .co.uk.
I rank well on .com Google searches right now on a lot of phrases and dont want to lose them or them to fall right down because I moved to a .co.uk dns/ip thing, I am hoping my .co.uk searches go up but my .com ones just stay the same but am worried as well that they might fall and it will affect me.
