Believe it or not, your web hosting can have an effect on your google or organic search engine rankings. The main reason: stability. If your web host is constantly crashing or going down and bots keep trying to access your web site and get 404 errors, they may stop coming back, thus, not picking up new web content, site updates, etc. Ultimately, you can lose a great deal of momentum in the organic search engine listings.
Another issue to consider: is your site sitting on a ‘box’ or server with questionable characters? Are there known search engine spammers on the shared hosting box server? Google does read IP addresses from web sites it visits and you could have a guilt by association situation if there is a known spammer with the same IP address.
A simple rule of thumb here: you get what you pay for. Paying 19 cents a month for web hosting may not be the answer. Find a company that has been around for a while and that seems to cater to more ‘business’ oriented markets.
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