Assuming cares about unique ips at all, does anyone know if it hates spamhaused IPs for website hosting, (not spamming etc)? Will I kill my page rank and traffic by putting some there?
Google doesn’t rely directly on Spamhaus, but it can get information from third-party services that do. Since many of those services reference Spamhaus listings, the negative flag can still affect how Google and other search engines treat a site. Google lowered trust in my site because Spamhaus.org added my server IP to their blacklist. I do not send spam. The emails flagged were only internal messages from my server to my own email, triggered after a server restart. 4 days after Spamhaus listed my IP, my emails started being returned as spam. I asked my clients, and about 90% of them reported that they stopped receiving emails from me. I requested IP removal the same day and successfully got it removed from Spamhaus. But many third-party services had already marked my sites as spam-related, referencing Spamhaus. As a result, my traffic dropped from 175–185 daily visits to around 70. I lost traffic from Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and others. Google organic visits fell from 100+ per day to fewer than 20. It has now been 6 weeks, and I still haven’t recovered my traffic. Spamhaus has a very low reputation on Trustpilot. Out of more than 100 negative reviews, only 4 suspiciously positive ones gave them 5 stars. The rest of the feedback matches the same problem I experienced - people being flagged as spammers even though they don’t send any spam and, in many cases, don’t even have email accounts on their domains.
I checked with Grok, which pulls insights from tons of sources in a flash, and here's what it said: https://x.com/i/grok?conversation=1962901056574128395 "No, Google does not rely on Spamhaus for SEO purposes. Spamhaus is primarily focused on tracking and blocking email spam, phishing, and malicious activities through IP and domain reputation data, such as their blocklists (e.g., SBL, DBL, ZEN). These are used by email providers and servers to filter spam, not for search engine optimization (SEO) or influencing Google’s search rankings.Google’s SEO algorithms and spam policies, as outlined in their documentation, focus on content quality, user experience, and tactics like avoiding cloaking, link schemes, or scraped content. There’s no evidence or official statement indicating Google uses Spamhaus data for SEO or search ranking purposes. Any connection between Spamhaus and Google is more likely related to email deliverability, where Gmail might use Spamhaus data indirectly to filter incoming mail, but this is speculative and not confirmed.''
Google doesn’t rely directly on Spamhaus, but it can get information from third-party services that do. Since many of those services reference Spamhaus listings, the negative flag can still affect how Google and other search engines treat a site.
Read this again: On July 10, SpamHouse listed my IP as spam. From July 14–15, I noticed my emails were not being delivered. Since I removed my IP from Spamhouse, my email started working again. Google may use Spamhouse data indirectly. My website’s search positions also dropped after July 14. Average positions fell from around 30–35 in April–May to 63–65 in July. Impressions dropped from 320k to 200k, and clicks dropped from 2,650 to 159. This shows a loss of Google trust, not a normal Google update. Previously, at least my first 50 posts were on the first page of search results. Now, far fewer posts appear on the first page.