What sort of role web hosting play in terms of SEO?

[mrkallen]

Most of the people ignore this fact that an unreliable hosting can cause damage to their website.

[lizatailor23]

Web hosting plays an important role in search engine optimization, With the right hosting solution your website can rank high on SERP (search engine result pages) and becomes search engine friendly.

[jack23]

Quick response time matters a lot in terms of search engine so one has to make sure that he is signing up with the right host.

[hyipplus]

I'm using Godaddy host. So is it a good host ? Or I would like to know about its rank. I'm living in Asia but the connect speed to GD host is little low.

[blueonline]

Web hosting roles have become more prominent compared with the past, especially when you study some articles which explain how loading times of websites and pages can have impacts on their ranks, since the latest Google update. Of course using a reliable hosting account will not guarantee having top positions on search engines but after adding fresh contents to your website, in order to ensure the pages will remain easy to reach by people and web engines, using a top host will be great.

If you take a close look at information displayed in your Google Webmaster Tools account, you will find details about pages which have not been reached by Google and the parts of your site that are inaccessible. Usually, such issues might be related to the hosting accounts used or the segments may contain coding problems and errors in scripts which need to get troubleshooted. Using a hosting account that can ensure sites are uptime always can be part of SEO strategies.

[maggykurt]

load time matters in seo
google truly dislikes time eating sites!

[mara]

It has been recently changed, but once had bigger impact: IP/geo location of server, neighbouring sites (the sites on the same server with share hosting; if you're sharing server with porn sites it can affect your ranking), page load (this still counts a lot).