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Ask IH: Can DNS Change Affect SEO?
So on Saturday, I changed from GitHub Pages to Firebase hosting.
I had some issues with GoDaddy's settings panel, but now it should be ok, but still see a lot of browsers not reaching the website, I see this through GA.
I was thinking this because Firebase servers might be located somewhere different than GH pages...and hence appear in different positions on searches.
For example, my organic traffic was higher than referrals until right before I changed the DNS
Some browsers, like Firefox, Safari are not reaching the server, hence the low traffic.
What do you guys think?
thank you and have a great day !
- Lorenz-Kraft 7y agoHow do you see through GA that users do not reach your website? As soon as your websites loads, it loads the GA Tracking ... but then your website is loaded, so reachable. About "browsers, like Firefox, Safari are not reaching the server": You probably did something wrong on your website or via DNS. Someone experienced should check this. About "Can DNS Change Affect SEO?": Yes, this is called "Bad Neighbourhood". It most often leads to decreased SEO rankings. In general: DNS changes might take some time ... up to 48 hours. Within this timeperiode, a lot of strange things can happen.
- Mike_Andreuzza 7y agoHey Lorentz. Well, very easy. The difference between Chrome users to Firefox and Safari eas significantly big, loke for example today chrome users are 84 and firefox is 10. It normally isn't that big of a difference. Then I also had some Firefox users reporting that the browser throwed a DNS error. I am not experiencing, I am building my first product after learning how to code... Thank you so much for answering.
- Lorenz-Kraft 7y agoWell... so you "estimate" via GA that your users do not reach your site. Fair enough. So do you get a grip on those "Firefox Users" that reported a DNS Error? The DNS error will probably lead you to your solution...