Hello everyone. I just had a quick question. I use hostgator to host some of my sites, and host gator gives unlimited site hosting with one plan. I have noticed that my addon sites go into a subdirectory and the domain names get redirected to that subdirectory. Will this hurt me SEO wise? Thanks in advance.
NOpe the only 2 things with hosting is : 1 . Uptime 2 . Server location I have hosting similar and theres no problem ....
Excellent. Thanks. I was worried because none of those sites pr went up on the last update but my other sites did. Thanks again.
the same thing happened to me with asmallorange and if my site was not new, I may have been banned from google for duplicate content. To fix this, when installing addon domains do not put them in "www/site.com" (it does this automatically) but you have to manually remove the "www" or whatever the folder is and just put your site name.
It's not an issue really. The only suggestion that I can think of is that you do not have too many inter linking between the sites on your shared plan having the same IP address. e.g. addon site A with a text link to addon site B etc. I've heard that it can effect SEO. Anyone else heard of this?
Link websites you own without using the nofollow attribute is consider a link scheme. This is according to Google's Webmaster Guidelines. Even know the risk is small of ever getting penalized for this do you want to take that chance for a backlink that most likely won't be relevant or worth much value?
Put simply...Of course it will hurt SEO wise. But it will only hurt you if you start to teeter on interlinking beetween all of the sites (site wide links). Just don't be spammy with your links and you will be fine. If you start to build your sites out (talking 10,000 plus pages) you need to get separate hosting with different IP's.
Why would you need different IPs; thats rather a silly assumption. I have a 2x Quad Core 2.33 GHz dedicated server hosting 7 websites with no problem on the same IP address which rank well for many different search terms. Your suggestion is what should be done if you plan to inter-link your sites. It's cheaper and smarter to use dedicated servers with multiple websites.
I have 6 sites on that same hosting plan and I have links in the footers to all the other sites. So should I take those out?
I just looked at my links on my google dashboard and it should other sites on the same hosting plan as external links. I looked through all the sites and none of them were counted as internal links.
Wrong. Period. THE LARGER THE SITES ARE THE MORE LIKELY TO BE SLAPPED FOR INTERLINKING BETWEEN THEM ON THE SAME IP.
You didn't even read what ssandecki said, did you? He said that just having them on the same server won't do anything. It's only a problem if you inter-link the sites between each other on the same server (that's sharing the same IP address) that you'll run into problems.
Whoa Whoa Whoa, apologies guys, your right absolutely, missed a sentence...were saying the same thing.
Eh, no problem. I've done that myself a few times before. (I wasn't in a particularly good mood today; though I did my best to hide it - if you don't believe me, ask ssandecki. I'm sure he'll tell you a few horror stories.)