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Matt Cutt’s View on Changing Your Hosting

Writing by Nick Stamoulis

For all of those businesses large and small who might be worried their rankings will simply tank just from changing their hosting company can now sleep at night. Coming from Matt Cutt’s mouth he claims that changing your hosting company will not affect your SEO in any sort of way. This is assuming that you are moving to a quality hosting company and not to a server that is jammed up with other spammy websites. Changing a hosting provider can be a very scary moment for many businesses especially when your entire livelihood depends on your website. Any problems could put your sales for that day or week in a very tricky and dangerous situation.

Here is the video from Matt Cutts about Changing Your Hosting:

Always try moving your website to a quality hosting company. It might not directly reflect your rankings but you never want your company website to share a server with a handful of websites that might have slightly frowned upon services. If one of those website carries a virus onto the server the server could ultimately go down for some period of time.

2 Responses to “Matt Cutt’s View on Changing Your Hosting”

  • Dennis Cook says:
    February 18, 2010 at 4:27 am

    Hi Matt
    This came at exactly the right time for me, as I have to move to another hosting company because I am not getting support for my SEO initiatives. I will make the move now with less concern.
    If the host is in another country (Europe vs Africa) should one be concerned?

  • Nick Stamoulis says:
    February 18, 2010 at 12:33 pm

    Hi Dennis,
    Thanks for reading and watching the Matt Cutts Video. Just in case Matt does not respond to your question, I figured I would answer it for you. The rule of thumb that I always recommend is where you and your company/site is located, that is where I would have my website hosted. Not only from a customer support perspective, but also from a piece of my perspective :) Since I am located and do business in the US, I personally would never even think of having my site hosted in the China, lets say…

    Anyway, hope this helps!
    Nick

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