I have close to a dozen of my sites hosted on one account, under one IP address, to save server costs. Will this hurt my SEO in any way, especially if I try to link-ring the sites together?
Hi, 1. If you don't have a dedicated server, there would be many other sites hosted on a shared server even you bought a dedicated IP. 2. Generally speaking, linking between your different domains would not hurt your SEO efforts though such links might come with lower value since they come from the same IP. all the best,
Are you talking about link farm? Links from the same IP is totally ok for Google. In fact, it encourages you to create deep links to your old content so that search engines can understand your site structure better. In addition, internal linking may help in improving your rank on SERP. I said that because I have seen many people have lots of links from their site in their link profile. However, internal links (links from same IP) don't have the same weight than links from other sources. I hope that helps
I'm talking about links from one domain (hosted on my server) to another domain (on the same server), not internal linking within one domain. I guess my question would be better phrased as: Is it worth it for me to pay for multiple hosting accounts so my sites can link to each other from different IPs?
There are a lot less IPs than the number of websites that are online. It is ok to have your websites hosted over the same IP but if all your backlinks are from that very IP, it'll be negative for your SEO. You can make a ratio of about 1:10 , if you have ten links from other IPs then you can have one link from the same IP where your primary website is hosted.
SEO always recommend different IPs for domain. if too many domain from the same niche, or similar content, it can hurt your site more or less.
Also, if the IP address is very similar, does this make a difference? Most of my host's IPs are pretty close together.
I had the same question myself. I decided to split some of the site between two hosting services and increase some of the ranking for the sites. It's also a good idea not to keep all your eggs in the same basket.!
All I know is... you need to have many Websites with different IPs and linking them together (linkwheel). Regards seoBunny.de
It's not "bad for SEO" but if you're trying to interlink all your sites on the same Class-C IP, then it won't be as good as if they were all on dedicated IP's
it won't hurt to link from the same IP but like everyone else says, it's better to get links from different servers/ips etc
You see this linkbuilding Plan? It must have different IPs! And It will boost your ranking. Regards seoBunny.de
As long as you don't blackhat your linkwheel, you shouldn't have any problems with Google as far as page rank.
I guess you must have got your answer by now. Here is a quick conclusion 1. Hosting your sites on the same IP is not a problem as long as the sites are on different niches 2. Even if the site is on the same niche, duplicate contents wont do you any good. 3. If you set it up for the purpose of boosting your "money page", then you will be in trouble I suggest getting a VPS with different IP's. Also your domain registration details will show that all domains are owned by the same person
Hi, A key point here concerns the links rather than the IP. Are the links natural? Is the content in some way related? Links to unrelated content, purely for back-linking purposes, will have a negative impact. My personal opinion is that if the sites provide good quality, original content and Google is happy with them in all other respects, the fact that they are on the same IP will have no impact on SEO. However, you might have noticed that Matt Cutts is reluctant to give definitive answers to questions on this and other subjects relating to their algorithm. He used terms like: "That would not be high on my list of things to worry about" "That shouldn't be a problem" "I wouldn't worry too much about that if I were you" No wonder there is so much confusion! Paul