: Can changing from public nameservers to running your own harm Google rankings? I'm currently on SiteGround, which means I'm on their public nameservers. I wanted a unique private nameservers so

@Annie201

Each search engine in general can make your site not listed in search results if it discovers that it has continuous difficulty in accessing your website.

Since you're changing nameservers, you're changing the data connection, and there's that chance that during the change that your site is not accessible to the public for a period of time.

I'd suggest visiting google's search console for your website, and set an account with them if you have not already done so, then you should notice the issues they have with connecting to your site (if any).

Then test everything out to make sure anyone can connect to your website (including your friends) and if they can, then I'd wait about 48 hours for the nameserver changes to take effect.

Also, make sure the new nameserver addresses are correct and that the computer you have that is managing them is always online. Don't turn the computer off or you'll break the gateway and users attempting to access the domain will receive a timeout error at best.

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@Connie744

It shouldn't matter what your name server is.

As long as Google bot can read your info, it shouldn't matter.

The only extra point i can add is if there will be too many backlinks pointing to your site from the same IP then it can be an issue. Meaning if there will be other sites with same name server / IP and pointing backlinks to your website then it can be an issue.

In your situation, i don't see that issue.

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