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Does the web host have anything to do with the ranking?

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As such, a web host can not help to improve the rankings. Search Engines will not rank you higher because your site is hosted on a particular web host (means buying hosting from Yahoo does not means your site will rank well in Yahoo) but yes if you choose a web host that remains down a lot that can certainly have a negative effect on your rankings.

So do keep in mind that though a web host will not help to improve your SE rankings but yes a bad host can have a bad effect on your rankings.

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World Impulse

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There is an additional factor to this.

Google and probably the other major search engines are checking the IP numbers on links and it is well known that by linking to a "bad neighbourhood" can trigger filters which can cause your site to go down on the rankings.

Now this is when you link to a bad neighbourhood, although here, imagine being in a bad neighbourhood. That is, your host is hosting other bad web sites and they have the same or same class of IP like your innocent site. Guess what Google will think? Right.

Answer provided by:

Jim Westergren

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