We get asked this question quite a bit: Does Switching Hosting Affect Your SEO efforts? The short answer is NO. The long answer is Yes:
Here’s why: IF you move from one hosting company to another and find your web site in a shared hosting environment (you share a server with a couple of hundred other web sites) and their are known spammers of malware types on that shared box, you could be placing your own web site rankings in jeopardy. Google is ‘trained’ to seek out and eliminate known search engine spammers as well as malware or malicious code type web sites. As a result, they also record the IP address of the host and guilt by associate could be the end result.
A host may not know that there are known spammers on their box until they start getting complaints, so it is best to do some due diligence prior to switching hosts. Google the hosting company and make sure you don’t see any comments or complaints from past victims.
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