In the last couple of days, I’ve been moving my blog to different servers that we manage. This, after Marc’s advise that it is good to be on an IP address no one else shares with you, especially if you get inbound links from them. I realized that a lot of our clients that link to my blog are also on the same server where my blog is hosted so the move will have some SEO benefits.
Thus, I tried to move my server out of it. Apparently, I’m having a hard time viewing my blog after two migrations, primarily due to slow DNS resolution by local ISPs. My site resolves almost instantly from DNSReport but local ISP still points to the old server on pings and traceroutes. Some of the regular visitors might also notice this as well.
This is a common incident we encounter with some clients who claim they cannot view their site when in fact it resolves just fine with the rest of the world. I think this is due local ISPs having longer DNS cache refresh within their network. We’ve had several correspondences with network admins of these ISPs but they themselves have no idea about it.
I think having a unique IP has its benefits in SEO, but rather over-emphasized. Though of course, this is just my opinion. :) I’m sure marc has the numbers to suggest the relevance of such a move. :)