When selecting a web site hosting, website owners and webmasters should be well aware of any server or hosting obstacles, when they are, can negatively affect your ongoing SEO efforts. Here are some considerations:
Timeout server, slow response times:
If a search engine requests a web page, and not returned in a timely manner (or a timeout occurs on the server), it is unlikely that indexing. This often lead to a reduced range unfavorable. As such, you can see the importance of ensuring that there is no significant downtime for your server or website. Not only are web crawlers unlikely to wait to load Web pages, but Internet consumers soon decides to visit other Internet resource, if access to your website is problematic. My guess is that you have 10 seconds or less.
Shared and blocked IP addresses:
Three (3) common concerns include: 1) the speed of the server, 2) by not receiving the full benefit of valuable inbound links and 3) the potential for untrusted neighbors to share your IP address. As web spiders or crawlers travel online, they often discover that the IP addresses that contain unwanted content (web spam). Instead off every single site, search engines simply block the IP address or IP address range.
Bandwidth and other limitations:
Does your server have limitations in the amount of traffic that can go to web site? In most cases, if you exceed your allowance, your website hosting, is interrupted and web spiders or crawlers are blocked from indexing. Moreover, not overprotective or restrict access to files that would limit the ability of a search engine spider to effectively track / index; your website or web pages.
Geographic Location Server:
The search engines take into account the location of a web server, determining the relevance of a website to a local search query. As such, we highly recommend that you acquire in the host country of destination, which determines the most relevant content. If you are using a dot com and the change of accommodation to another country, you may experience unwanted effects on the results of your search engine, and parts of the world.
In short, always choose a seo friendly web hosting service provider.
Very nice tips. I have seen many people asking about importance of hosting in terms of SEO…
Still we would love to know what are those countries which are really worst to think about selecting your servers and hosting your site.
Also, the latest issue from Google for site ranking says that site loading time should be good enough. Now do you have any idea what is that and will that be effected from server loading time?
concerning the shared hosting:
I’ve read that hosting your websites on the same shared server decreases the link value when linking to each other rather than from an external ip
any thoughts about that?