Does Google reindex site if IP address changes ?

**harry** · 23-11-2006, 18:37

Suppose a website hosting is moved to new host and now it have a new IP address, then does the Googlebot again crawls the entire website hosting for indexing?
if yes, how long does Googlebot takes to crawl the pages of a website hosting with a new IP address

**Ryan** · 24-11-2006, 13:19

I am not too sure about the website hosting re-indexing after the change of IP address but it should not cause any problems in terms of SEO. There are issues to be considered, such as quality and location of service and timing of move, but beyond that a move in hosting a website hosting should not make any difference.

**Danny M** · 24-11-2006, 15:23

Originally Posted by harry

Suppose a website hosting is moved to new host and now it have a new IP address, then does the Googlebot again crawls the entire website hosting for indexing?
if yes, how long does Googlebot takes to crawl the pages of a website hosting with a new IP address

IMO it is only the IP address that is changing and not the content of the website hosting,so what's the confusion all about.
If you maintain your backlinks changing IP address will have some impact on your ranking in Google but not on the indexed pages.
If you don’t change the domain name and only change the IP address then there is a very little impact on rankings or traffic.
Also most of the search engines index by domain name, not IP address.
What I could suggest is that you can copy the website hosting to the new IP address. After doing this you should notify your domain name registrar about the new IP address. Within 2-3 days your domain name points to the new IP address and the traffic starts following. When the new IP percolates through the DNS servers and caches you can take the old website hosting down.
If anyone else has any updates on this please do share them.

**Danny Lawson** · 25-11-2006, 08:40

Yes I agree with Dave. The content of the website hosting is what is important and not the IP address. Itâ€™s the domain name that matters. So as long as you change the IP address I don't think that should make a lot of difference for the search engine crawlers as the domain name will remain the same.

**Jack** · 25-11-2006, 12:17

There is no problem at all if you dont change the domain name. If you do so then, the links which were submitted in directories and other website hostings would be of no use. It doesn't matter if you change the IP Adress. The only thing you should remember is, you should not change your domain name.Thats it.

**rich** · 25-11-2006, 14:51

This happens differently in various scenarios as moving the hosts doesnâ€™t make Google to again re-index the pages and also will not affect the rankings. Yea if you move the website hosting many times it may elevate some kind of problems though. Also if you happen to move to another country then the rankings are likely to change. The Google bots task in general cases is to recognize the domain name and not the IP address for indexing principles.

**unplugged** · 27-11-2006, 13:37

Not normally I woudlent have thought.

As long as the content and URL stays the same it will keep the index. IPs change all the time its not important for a search engine to know as the users and the indexing is done on a domain basis.

The only possible reason for loggin an IP would be PR hyjacking where a user gets a good pagerank on a certain page and URL then dumps it and replaces it with something else in order to get top rankings for other pages and keywords.

**eUKhost.com** · 27-11-2006, 13:51

If Google reindexed web pages after their IPs changed then everyone would have purchased their dedicated IPs directly from Arin. You leave a hosting company or a server and carry your IP along with you.

Luckily this is not the case as the algorithm gives no priority to the IP address. IP address is just used to categorize website hostings to respective countries. UK domains are categorized as UK website hostings no matter where the website hostings are hosted but in case of .com domains you need to host them on UK based servers to get better ranking for UK search.

.co.uk, .uk.com, .uk.org, .uk.net, .me.uk domains can be hosted anywhere in the world as they get categorized as UK domains by search engines and you get better ranking in UK search. Its better to host on UK servers as your visitors will get fast response for your website hosting but in case of US servers they will have slow down. We have highly reliable network in UK and our datacenter has connectivity of 15 gbps and very few datacenters have such network.

**Gracia** · 11-04-2007, 12:22

I did a search in google with inurl:www.mysite.com and got back two results both with my domain. One had www.mysite.com with a discription and the other result looked just like this www.mysite.com%20/
Anybody have any ideas why a "%20/" showing up after my domain? I never used "%20/" in any of my page names.

**innocentguy** · 15-04-2007, 11:42

An entry was found in my index.dat file, using Encase software, which my employers believed this to be an attempted log onto the website hosting however a pice of software called 'Websense' blocked it, I have contacted Websense who have stated that they would not have blocked this attempt log on and certainly would not have put an entry in the index.dat file. The entry looks similiar to the following

REDR----Ã¡â€”Â·Â·â‚¬/~৳http://www.faceparty.com/Â·â€“Â·

I have looked into this and it appears that this is nothing but a redirect to the website hosting. Can anyone give me any information on this at all?

My email is my_post_is_where@hotmail.com

Many thanks

**webpredators** · 13-03-2009, 12:33

Hi - Please can anyone tell me how long it will take Google to pick up an IP address change? The reason I ask it because I have a .com domain that did not appear well on Google.co.uk because it was hosted in Portugal. I switched the hosting to UK about 10 days ago and Google has revisited my homepage since then, but the site is still not appearing any better on Google.co.uk. Can it take a while for this change to be detected?
Thanks, Mike

**Jack** · 13-03-2009, 13:01

You will need to wait for a while. I am sure Google will make a note of it. Meanwhile, you can concentrate on getting backlinks from UK based/hosted websites.

**Merrick** · 13-03-2009, 15:18

Yes I agree with Jack!

You can concentrate on getting backlinks. If you have good content with more links to your website, it will surely help you getting good Page Ranking and your webpage will appear on the top on Google. Best wishes to you!

**Catherine** · 14-03-2009, 20:57

Agreed. Some of the most common techniques of getting backlinks are directory submissions, Forum postings, Blogging and Social bookmarking. These techniques, if used properly, will surely bring backlinks to your website and help you in improving rankings of your website on search engines.

**jennifer** · 15-03-2009, 05:58

While you are at it you might want to search on our forums.. There are lots of tips available that will help you to increase your website ranking and also some great SEO tips have been posted.

**Ryan** · 15-03-2009, 18:07

Originally Posted by webpredators

Hi - Please can anyone tell me how long it will take Google to pick up an IP address change? The reason I ask it because I have a .com domain that did not appear well on Google.co.uk because it was hosted in Portugal. I switched the hosting to UK about 10 days ago and Google has revisited my homepage since then, but the site is still not appearing any better on Google.co.uk. Can it take a while for this change to be detected?
Thanks, Mike

Moving your site on a UK based server would definitely help site rankings in Google.co.uk, but don't expect drastic results overnight. It will take some time for the results to show up. In the meanwhile, as suggested earlier, keep on building backlinks from UK based sites.

**harry** · 16-03-2009, 19:46

Yes, all you have to do is to get quality relevant backlinks from other high ranking UK based websites. Forum/blog postings, directory submissions, social bookmarking etc ….. would surely help you for getting backlinks. If you just want to concentrate on Google UK then try to get backlinks from the websites which are having UK tld and are hosted on UK servers.

**Macdale** · 16-03-2009, 20:34

As far as i know, Google spiders the page on the base of Domain Name or Domain IP. Changing the web host will not affect the ranking nor indexing of pages. The possibility is there if you change some url's and didn't used the 301 redirection.

**Raymond** · 20-03-2009, 00:09

Just curious, how often google indexes domain ownership information. Anyone know how often they do this or is there a way to request they identify ownership information correctly?

**jennifer** · 20-03-2009, 09:52

I believe you will need to wait until they update their database, not sure how often they do it though.

I read somewhere that they had a reconsideration request form but I am not sure if this would apply in your case. You might want to google some more on this.

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