Location change by hosting company - causes a rankings drop?

[Keano16]

Regards to all forum members.

Situation is like this...

We had a well visited and world-wide accepted website with decent amount of visitors and decent profit monthly.

2 years ago everything started to go "downstairs", and I didn't had a clue what was going on. We have good content, lots of downloads, various end-user files, etc.

And something came up on my mind today. Aprox. 2 years ago my hosting company transfered their servers onto a new location in Europe, in non-english-speaking country (to be more correct, server is now in country where I live!).

So, when I roll back film in my head, maybe these 2 situations are connected?

Site always remained the same, but something has seriously changed.

Any advice and comment is accepted.

Thanks in advance!

[edited by: tedster at 10:22 pm (utc) on Feb. 18, 2009]

[tedster]

Did your website's IP address change at that time? If so, your suspicions are worth following up, I'd say.

[Keano16]

To be honest, I am not aware if IP was changed/or not.

I will have to check that somehow...

[Keano16]

Yes, in September 2007 they have changes server from USA one, to new one, based in Europe.

So, any advices now... For start I should change server to USA one, or?

[tedster]

That's exactly what I'd do - return the hosting to a US IP address.