Addon/Parked Domain(s) Question(s)

Discussion in 'General Business' started by Vozzek, Oct 1, 2008.

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  1. #1
    Hi all,

    Real brief... started a year ago by creating a retail website which is really doing well. Got Hostgator (love it), and over time I developed a few other non-retail websites and parked them as add-ons to my main site. Some have AdSense, others do not.

    Anyway, I now own over a dozen different domains/sites and am working on a few more. I was wondering the following:

    1) Are having all these domains added to/parked on my main site - and therefore sharing the same IP address - bad for SEO, ranking, or anything like that? (I also pay $5/month extra for a dedicated IP address because of my SSL certificate, if that means anything...)

    2) Think it would be better for me to open a second Hostgator account and put all my secondary sites there, leaving my two main retail sites on the original account? Other than organization, what would be the benefits of this?

    3) How many sites do you guys usually leave on the same IP address? Does it really matter, or am I just misinformed?

    I know I really should look into putting together my own hosting somehow, but I'm too busy doing tons of other PhP and SEO crap :)

    Thanks in advance for the help, this kind of stuff is confusing to me.
     
    Vozzek, Oct 1, 2008 IP
  2. micksss

    micksss Notable Member

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    I'm pretty sure that there is no SEO issue with having all of your sites on one shared plan (same IP) so long as you do not have links between the sites (site a having text links to site b, c, d, etc. and site b, having text links to site a, c, d, etc).
     
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  3. Vozzek

    Vozzek Active Member

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    #3
    Thanks for the response, but why would I not be able to interlink my sites just because they're on the same IP?
     
    Vozzek, Oct 1, 2008 IP
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    mentos Prominent Member

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    1.Yes it will effect your SEO ranking

    2.No having any different coz its still at same IP

    3.I only put 1 blog at each IP(web hosting).Then put my other blog at other webhosting company
     
    mentos, Oct 2, 2008 IP
  5. Vozzek

    Vozzek Active Member

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    That seems pretty ridiculous.

    A webmaster in my situation is running completely different individualized websites with no duplicate content. None of them are blogs, either.

    Why would the SE's penalize me just because I found one good hosting company from which to park my sites?

    If the sites were similar or sharing content I could totally see that, but otherwise that's just silly.
     
    Vozzek, Oct 2, 2008 IP