Moving site between hosts over short time scale

[Dan-Lawrence]

Hi

Does anyone know if moving your website between hosts & server location 3 times in a relatively short time frame (say 2 months) can have a negative impact from an seo perspective ?

Cheers
Dan

[UnderRugSwept]

There is always a slight risk. The biggest risk lies in the possibility of Google choosing to crawl the site while it's being propagated or during the inevitable down time. This could cause some pages to have different IP addresses--from your new host and old host.

As far as how Google chooses to judge the fact that your IP changed three times in a one month period, I don't know what it thinks of that, but I know if definitely takes note.

All that being said, the odds are good that you'll be perfectly fine.

[William.Lau]

From my experience if there is little downtime there is little to no effect at all.

Assuming everything stays the same and nothing is changed except host.

[Dan-Lawrence]

Thanks William !

[Dan-Lawrence]

Thanks Marisa !!