Professional Website Hosting for SEO is Key
Monday, January 14th, 2008Picking the best web hosting provider requires a lot of research. Many factors must be taken into consideration such as Cost, Speed, Features, Security, Uptime, Support, etc,. For SEO discussion purposes Uptime is one of the most crucial factors. Uptime is a measure of the time a web server has been “up” and running. It came into use to describe the opposite of downtime, times when a server was not operational. The uptime and reliability of web hosting providers is sometimes measured in nines. “Five nines” means 99.999% availability, which translates to a total downtime of approximately five minutes and fifteen seconds per year. The closer to 100%, the better.
To illustrate the importance of Uptime consider the following example: If a Googlebot attempts to access your website that just so happens to be down due to the downtime of your web hosting provider, it will assume that the page no longer exists and thus will drastically reduce your search rankings or even eliminate your page from the index until the Googlebot can crawl the page again.
HostTracker.com offers a great Uptime Monitor Utility that places a button on your website displaying its uptime.
ATXWebmasters.com can provide your company with affordable website hosting in Cleveland, approved for top search engine rankings.
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