In late November last year I moved my site niche-website-guide.com from 1and1 UK to Bluehost. The main reason for doing this was to see what difference it made to the search engines.
Over the last few years Yahoo in particular seems to give completely different results when searching the USA Yahoo (yahoo.com) and the UK Yahoo (yahoo.co.uk). The site was doing well in Yahoo UK and Google but not so well in Yahoo USA.
I wanted to see if simply moving it to a USA host would reverse the results. I would expect it to, which is why I recommend that USA based businesses use a USA based host and vice-versa. However I would still like confirmation. The results will take time to come through as the search engines adjust to the new location.
You can read how I did it it in Moving Host and Domain Name Registrars
3 responses so far ↓
1 will // Jan 14, 2008 at 1:39 am
do you know of any services that handle this process specifically for you, also including email set up if any.
thanks, will
2 admin // Jan 14, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Will
No but it was relatively straightforward process.
If you already have emails set up on te domain you will need to recreate them when you move hosts.
3 Matt // Jun 2, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Hey there!
Nice article, I’m thinking of doing exactly the same thing and this has really helped.
Thanks for taking the time to put your experiences on the web!
Matt
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