Hosting website with a Dedicated IP address can serve a useful purpose. Websites that use a SSL require the use of dedicated IP address, but other than most webmasters do not consider a dedicated IP to be much of a benefit. From my experience I also feel that using a dedicated IP can be beneficial for SEO purposes. Keep in mind, if you website is not optimized property, then having a dedicated IP address will not make much of a difference for SEO. I personally own many websites and always use a dedicated IP for my most important websites. Do you use Dedicated IP for SEO? - If so, do you think it has helped your website get better search engine position?
We've been in the Ecommerce Web hosting business for 10 years. As you mentioned, optimizing a website will have more to do with success than a static IP. I can say that we have many clients (with optimized websites) cranking major business on their Ecommerce stores using our shared secure certificate with a shared IP addres. We have more Ecommerce clients using our shared certificate that their own dedicated certificate. They don't need their own IP address to use our cert but they must have one to have their own secure cert. Bottom line (in my opinion) is that there is no advantage at all for having a static IP for SUCCESS. Granted, if someone else on the same IP address is spamming or doing other things to get a "black mark" against that IP address, it could affect another user of the same IP address. But if the hosting company is on their toes, they shouldn't let this happen ...
Dedicated IP is a small advantage. Dedicated IP with no one else in your class-c is a major advantage, especially if you're aggressive in inbound link building. Just my 2 cents from 50 or sites in the past couple of years. Not a hard ruled, but a guideline.
Yes. My website has dedicated ip address, because if you have shared ip address with bed neighbor hood then your site will also affects on serp. so it would be better to have dedicated ip address.
ROFLMAO Having a dedicated IP has absolutely NOTHING to do with SEO. It does not provide ANY SEO benefit for a site to have a dedicated IP. There is nothing in the SEs algorithms that says, "IF CountOfDomainAtIP(CurrentDomainsIPAddress) = 1 THEN BoostRankings(CurrentURL)". That's total bunk. Probably 99% of the domains on the web use shared hosting. The ONLY real benefit of having a dedicated IP is that it insures that Google will ONLY penalize you for activities being done on YOUR sites that are hosted on that IP. When you share an IP with hundreds of web sites in a shared hosting environment, there is a small chance that your site could get inadvertantly penalized because of the actions of other webmasters on that same shared IP. For example, if you happen to get stuck on a shared server with a blackhat SEO that has built a link farm of hundreds of sites and that blackhat SEO gets caught, Google will sometimes penalize the entire IP rather than trying to find the few sites hosted at that IP that are NOT violating their Webmaster Guidelines. So your site "could" get penalized by accident along with the hundreds of sites owned by the blackhat... a sort of guilt by association IP penalty. Of course if you get caught in this situation and submit a reconsideration request to Google, once they manually review your site and determine you are NOT violating their Webmaster Guidelines, they will lift the penalty for you site. But somtimes this can take a couple of weeks. I use dedicated IPs for one reason... to eliminate this risk that my site could get penalized as a result of other webmasters' actions. I don't want to deal with the hassel and possible loss of income during the period between when I get penalized for others' actions and when the penalty is lifted. An extra $2-3 per month is worth the peace of mind it provides IMO.