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Please forgive my question if it sounds naive. Our counseling and psychotherapy web site (www.northsuburbancounseling.net) has had page one placement (in addition to Google Local) for 2 years now thanks to the many things I have learned from this forum to put into place. Recently, however, (this past month) when I test our placement (typing in "couples counseling reading ma" or some other local town in my search string) we have dropped off of page one. I just checked my pagerank and it went from a 4 to a 3.

I recently dumped my server due to downtime issues and am now on another server (Webzpro). I have new a primary domain in the new server account for our new life coaching web site (www.northsuburbancoaching.net) and was able to put a secondary domain within the same account and directory tree for our counseling and psychotherapy web site (www.northsuburbancounseling.net).

My question is, can sharing this common account between my two web sites effect my search engine placement and page rank?

Thanks in advance,

Changing IP for the website does not effect your results. However if you have a downtime that is too long, bots will notice it. This can result in declining of search results, however if you get it up again it will increase relatively fast again. Cause the bot knows "it's back", so to say.

Changing a server for a website do not affect much. Still consider two major factors.

- Your website should not be hosted on server which has pron websites or banned websites hosted.
- There will be some degradation in ranking of your website as while you are changing your server there will be downtime and if crawler visits your website at that time, then it will be considered as bad according to Search engine.

Make sure that you change your server within less specific time.