Will new ISP & language hurt ranking?

Will moving to a new ISP and PHP hurt my rank?

[kevin3d]

I'm moving my rank 5 website to a new ISP but keeping the domain name. Will this hurt my current position in the search engines? Also, I'm changing my language from asp to php; will this have any effect if links point to my domain name?

Finally, on a little diferent note, I use the same terms-of-use and privacy-policy statement on several different sites; will I get a "copied content" penalty from the search engines?

So many question...I know. Thanks in advance.

[encyclo]

Just changing servers won't be a problem as long as you keep the site available on both during the transition period. Just changing technology (ASP to PHP) in itself isn't a problem (the spiders only see the end result) but changing file names can be disastrous - you should set the .asp extension to be parsed by PHP so your file structure remains unchanged.

For the terms of use and privacy pages, you should simply exclude them from the index with a robots.txt entry or a meta robots tag.

[kevin3d]

Thanks for the reply!

The suggestion about robot.txt makes total sense.

I'm in a little bit of a quandry about changing the file structure of my site, though. While my site has a PR of 5, I really don't think I'm doing very well on traffic (35 to 70 unique visitors a day :-(. That's because when I built the site I didn't know/care diddely about SEO. Now I do care & think I know alot more. My intent was to basically re-vamp the site.

I guess I should research what pages are being linked to (I think I can do that). Nothing I can do/know about people's bookmarks.