Bad hosting companies bad for SEO – Web hosting companies

We get questions from users asking whether where we host our website plays a role in search engines. Our answer is yes there are lot of factors when it comes to ranking in search engines and a problem with a hosting company will be an other important factor.
Here are some reasons why you should select a good host.

1. Downtime: Make sure you get the best uptime not just by guarantee but by testimonials of other companies of the hosting company you want to host. We have seen most of the web hosting companies promise 99.9% uptime but a lot of them never keep up that promise. If the site goes down you have to keep going behind them and finally if there is a major fault you site might takes about 3 or 4 days which is a massive negative effect on your site. A long downtime affects your repeated customers if they are regular to your website and find you site is down for a long period eventually they will never return back which is not good for sites which depends on repeated traffic. A long downtime also affects search engine crawling googlebot and other major crawlers are programmed to visit big high quality sites on a repeated trip which varies from inbetween few hours a day to once a day to once in couple of days. If the Search engine crawlers cant crawl the site even after repeated attempts they might boot your site out of index for a short while eventually it will come back but the risk of loosing precious ranking is not good.
Also its not about repeated visitors also first time visitors will be badly affected if you have a bad hosting company and suffer a long term downtime impact in search engines. Imagine potential customers click on a search result and see that your site doesn’t exist they will never come to your again.
Bad DNS resolving: I have seem some hosting companies suffer from bad DNS resolving. If the DNS resolving is not good search engine crawlers will have trouble accessing your site from some of their datacenters and a bad crawl will affect your site. A bad crawl is bad for SEO since your site should have good credible crawling capabilities for the crawlers to visit regularly and inaccessible pages on your site due to DNS problem will result in bad distribution of link juice which will cause loss of internal link popularity.
Banned IPs hosting: There are millions websites which share hosting on same Ips with other websites. Though this is a natural phenomenon sharing an IPs with too much banned websites / spam websites / adult websites will hurt your site. There is a limit no-one can prevent a bad site from being in a shared IP but imagine 60% of all websites hosted on your IP are spamming the search engines then your site will be considered part of it and this will loose your credibility with search engine algorithms.

Shared IPs: As mentioned in the above post shared Ips sometimes hurt best solution is dedicated IP but if you cant afford dedicated Ips research more on the host an if their shared IPs are fine go ahead and host.

Hosting company Search engine rankings: If you are search engine user and looking for a web host mostly you will use search. Most of the time sites that rank in top will have good credibility since they should have worked really hard to reach what they are right now.

Mod_rewrite: Though rewriting is not important now a rewrite to the dynamic URls will make search engines job easier and your users will remember URLs better. I recommend check your host first to make sure they offer good URL writing whether its PHP, or Perl or ASP

There are other factors too but above are important and can be researched before buying with a hosting company,

Google Webmaster Central Live chat – Full Raw chat log – Chat log on SEO related discussion

Google webmaster central live chat log full unedited version.
Please read the log here,
Update Full Raw Unedited version of Audio transcript.
We are now posting the full chat log which we were able to save during the live chat conversation between Google’s Search quality / webmaster central engineers and webmasters around the world. It was very interesting session and this is the first time in the history of Search engines did we see live online chat between a search engine company and the webmasters.

This is a raw chat log we never had time to clean it due to weekend. In the coming week we will able to select the best answers from this and will be posting in a separate blog posting till that time enjoy reading this log its interesting. We have some very good industry experts comment in this LOG apart from Google’s panelists.
Already we posted the full text based Question and Answer Session here
Please read the log here.
We are preparing the transcript from the 90 minutes audio its gonna take time, we will also post the full audio though its not of the best quality. 🙂

More spam emails offering SEO services – We are not interested,

More SEO spam emails we received offering SEO services,

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Search engine optimization related spam emails we recieve

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Unsolicited Email SEO spam – search engine optimization spam emails

We receive a lot of spam emails we want to post some of them here,

Here is one

“Dear We are a fast growing INDIA based company.We provide complete Natural Link Building Solution in professional Internet Marketing Services. We have a dedicated team of professionals to serve you in Link buildingand SEO. Our Link Builders who specialize in getting theme based targeted links for Client’s website. We provide you the reciprocal and one way link building with following essential conditions: 1.We ensure that the page where the webmaster has added our link is indexed by Google/Yahoo/MSN.2.We ensure the committed No of links on that particular link page. 3.We ensure that the sites must be related to the theme of the campaign what we are working for.4.We ensure the webmaster to use the proper anchor text(Title)/description provided.to him to place our link at his/her sites5.We ensure that no webmaster receives a repeated Link Request Mail forthe same campaign. We strictly work on performance basis and can assure you of getting quality links for your site as well. We wish you the best of luck and looking forward to a long business relationship with you and your company. we provide a quality work in Link Building and search engine optimization also we are handling web site work, we are working in, PHP, ASP.Net(web application),we have a experienced team in development. if u want to increase the popularity and also want to be in top twenty in search engine.. Kind Regards neha sangal”

Special Characters, Smileys in Meta Description – Helps or hurts

How many of you have seen sites which use special characters / smileys in their title and meta tags. I have personally come across a lot of sites doing it .

Having smiley’s in title and targeting a commercial audience IMO is not a great idea. when people are looking for professional company to do service for them its better we stay away from all those playful stuff in titles but if its a site servicing a crowd that likes stuff like that we can definitely do it.

Whether it affects ROI or not is a question we never tested it if someone has tested please post your experiences here

What is real keyword competition in SEO?

How many of you have searched google and found results showing more than 10,000,000 million pages. We at Search Engine Genie have worked on sites where the competition is more than 25,000,000 and still gain No.1 position in Search engines. So how come we rank a website page better than 25,000,000 pages. Actually the no of results showing up is not the real competion you will be facing when it comes to ranking a website.

When you are looking to rank in niche markets make sure you first do a complete research on your competition. You use a keyword and find millions of results I recommend go through the top 10 pages after 10 pages you will see results that are not exactly competing with you but random pages that are there just because keywords you searched somewhere occur on that page. This is true in many cases most of the time competition to get your site ranked is not more than 1000 websites. Competing with 1000 websites will be one of the most of difficult task to do. So most of time when we are doing regional search engine optimization we are competing with less than 100 sites even if the results show millions of pages.

Most of the sites that are there in internet today are not optimized for search engines so that eliminates majority of the websites from competing with you, even if they are optimized they need lots of links to compete with competitive industry. So you get good links and you eliminate most of your competition. Also never stop adding quality information for your site if you are going after a niche industry you are supposed to run a website that even evolves. It usa to evolve by itself or you need to make it evolve.

We at search engine genie make sure we add atleast 2 pages of content to our website everyday. So 6 months down the road we have a website with atleast 1000 new pages of contents. This is a major step when it comes to tackling competition. So I recommend don’t worry what google shows in millions keep working on your site eventually you will be on top of Major search engines

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