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I am about to change my hosting company for my website, but before i do this can anyone tell me if this change will affect my positioning in the search engines.

AFAIK,, there will be no effect if you only change your hostings...

not to sure about that as i have spoken to some other forums and have quite different responses, at the moment i am in total limbo with what to do.

I'm not sure, but IMO. Changing hosting company will lead to the change of IP Address. As far as I know IP Address is extremely important when the search engines make their SERP.

So, what I assume, you might tempererly drop your SERP with the search engines, but you'l get it back soon. Once again, IMO.

Have a great day,
Peter

This is my problem i am not only changing my host server but i am also changing the whole look of my site,
I know that my site will be search engine friendly but i am not sure about the hosting server,
should i add the new site and server together under a different domain name and then after a few months change the domian name or should i just add the new site to a new hosting server with the old domain name, dialemers what should i do.

andy woolfe wrote:This is my problem i am not only changing my host server but i am also changing the whole look of my site,
I know that my site will be search engine friendly but i am not sure about the hosting server,
should i add the new site and server together under a different domain name and then after a few months change the domian name or should i just add the new site to a new hosting server with the old domain name, dialemers what should i do.

You raised a tricky question. I don't know the answer. But it seems to me if you add the new site and server together under a different domain name and then after a few months change the domian name that will look very artificial for the search engines. They will keep your content in the cache for a while under the old domain, then the same content will appear under the new domain, it might look as duplicate. Very, very iffy. IMO.

Have a great day,
Peter

Thats what i thought, i would probably end up getting penalised for duplicate site material i think i am going to just have to take a drop in rankings whilst i change things over, as i can't really see any other option.

andy woolfe wrote:Thats what i thought, i would probably end up getting penalised for duplicate site material i think i am going to just have to take a drop in rankings whilst i change things over, as i can't really see any other option.

I just expressed my opinion, using what I think is common sense. It doesn't mean I'm right.
Someone else might have different opinion, or other idea.

Have a great day,
Peter

Yes i fully understand that and i am thankfull for your opinion, nobody else seems to want to give this problem any further advice so i guess i will just have to go with my gut feeling.

There is no problem with changing your hosting company.But you have to use 301 redirect for your new host.For detail process for redirect see:
http://www.isitebuild.com/301-redirect.htm

Thanks for that, the information you have gave me is really helpfull.