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    Moving site from www to non www and also hosting to vps what will be the effect?

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    • SeoBlogs61
      SeoBlogs61 last edited by

      Hi SEO gurus,
      I am trying to move my site from shared hosting to VPS hosting and also moving from www to non www version.
      What is the best possible way to avoid any issue and without losing the backlinks.
      Is it good or bad to do? URL: https://buylikesservices.com/

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      • webduh
        webduh last edited by

        https://www.interserver.net/r/703604

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        • suicidetram
          suicidetram last edited by

          Private hosting is better but it comes more expensive

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          • Trulyymad
            Trulyymad last edited by

            I have a website The Tourist Spot, earlier it was indexed with a non-www version but later I got it redirected to the www version. But when check my indexed pages on google, I find that I have both versions of the website indexed. Now I want to remove the non-www version. I tried to remove using the console but there was a notification that if I submit to delete page then all versions will be removed from google for the next 6 months. Now I need help to remove/deindex the non-www version. Anyone help me, please?

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            • Matt.mm
              Matt.mm last edited by

              To have a unique domain structure, you should redirect www to nonwww using 301 redirect as other members said too. And regarding changing your webhosting, the best way is to migrate your website content at first and when everything was ready at your new hosting, then change nameservers of your domain through the control panel of your domain, In this case your website faces least downtime. Changing hosting only changes the IP of your website and search engines understand it and its a normal procedure for almost all websites to change their webhosting. So only try to do it with lowest possible downtime.

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              • amitydigital
                amitydigital last edited by

                Why take the risk? Having your site load with the www doesn't hurt you. It's not as if the site will perform better without the www and if your site is configured properly your site will load no matter how you have that part of it set.

                Google views www.domain.com as a different site from domain.com. You can mitgiate your risk by doing 301 redirects from your www site to your non www but there is always going to be some amount of risk and the potential to see a temporary dip while Google figures out what just happened. Not sure I see enough benefit in making the move to warrant changing it.

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                • Tom.Capper
                  Tom.Capper @SeoBlogs61 last edited by

                  @seoblogs61 Hey, sorry for the super slow reply.

                  Hosting shouldn't matter unless it changes the URLs (any further than you're deliberately changing them).

                  Moving from www to non www means you need to make sure there is a 1:1 mapping of old to new URLs as 301 redirects. This may be possible using a server config rule.

                  Be aware that any URL migration comes with SEO risks. The 301 redirects in theory will carry across most of the value of your backlinks, but there may be delays in Google understanding the new relationship, or a slight dilution, or some technical hitch which causes some URLs to not be caught by your rule.

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