Hello, I have several sites on the same shared server, and have heard of google penalizing for linking to the sites that are on the same server. I am wondering about this because I have products that are similar on different sites that the possible customer may be interested in purchasing as well? Can anyone with similar experience explain their results/methods of doing this without getting penalized or if the penalty is very significant? Thanks for any input.
If you have several sites on one server it should not hurt but linking them within may be bad as Google do not appreciate linking to sites hosted on same server.
Google would not penalise you for getting links from site on the same shared server, they might not give you as much benefit from it though. Lot of site do this kind of link in a very ligitimate manner.
Google should never say anything about this. But if your most backlinks come form same IP, at least it doesn't looks "nature".
Most important thing is that the links come from related sites. Backlinks from sites in the same niche are the best and for Google the most valuable.
Same shared server ? there are probably thousands of websites on the same server . doesn't make any sense to me.
My understanding of how Google views this is that if you have a dozen sites hosted on the same server, only link the sites that are related to each other, meaning if you have a couple sports sites, then link them, because it's related content, but don't link your "Make money online" site with your "I love Justin Timberlake" site. Google wants links to come from relevant sites with related content.
Matt Cutts from Google has stated that there is no difference between links from the same IP address or a different IP address. What matters to Google is relevance. If you have a bunch of sites that are on different topics and interlink them heavily you'll probably run afoul of Google. However, doing selective interlinking between your sites is o.k. as long as they're related in content. I'd stay away from site wide links and focus on links in the text or in menus that your visitors will actually click.
I always link my sites together. If you are running on a shared server there is usually literally thousands of other domain names on that server, it may be worth less but I have never ever seen the slightest penalty. In fact I find it useful for getting new sites indexed quickly.
I've a proxy network of 6 proxies and all are linked to each others. Google don't penalize me, it give me backlinks from site to others. But i don't know if more site is added you could get a penality (aka 15-100 site linked on the same shared ip)
dont worry there is no chance of penalization, google not considering the site IP, considering the domains only. almost shared hosting are sharing the same IP. if there is any problem of linking, shared will be down, m doing the link between my sites which are hosted in same server. Both r going fine
That's not true, penalties only come about is the site being linked to is a site considered spam by google. So if site A (an ebook store) links to Site B (a doorway page), Site A may be penalized because site b is perhaps known by Google to be a site that adds no value. The only thing is that some people allege that google does a check on ips, so you should use multiple hosts to host your sites because the domain would resolve to a different ip and would look like it's owned by someone else so Google would consider the link to be more genuine.
I think there's some language problem, I never meant that "Google said that", I said Google do not appreciate this kind of linking. This means Google would not penalize or say you anything but it would judge this pattern of linking and may not give you much benefits as this may not look natural to it. I hope this sounds clear