I am researching on a subject and would like to know what are your thoughts/knowledge about one particular problem. Let say I have two different websites , with two different hosting plans from a same provider. It looks like this: Website A/ IP C Class : xyz.xyz.xyz.001 Website B/ IP C Class : xyz.xyz.xyz.002 There are both hosted on a XYZ provider. My specific question is this : If I provide backlink from WebSite A -----> to Website B, does it affect my SEO, concerning the fact that the web hosting is the same , and only the last three digits are different for their IP's. How does the search engines interpret it? Thank you in advance.
OK let's imagine we have websites A, B, C, D, E, F occupying top 10 results say on a search phrase and they are all hosted by the same hosting and are all targeting the same niche that being SEO but they all ignore all this "SEO hosting" c class stuff as nonsense, as are not up to anything dodgy, would that help you with your research at all?
Okey I get this, but what about back link building? I will assume that your opinion would be the same
What I how would be considered the backlinks from websiteA to websiteB? Will this helps with the SEO, or has no effect at all, because of the similar IP's and hosting.
The Matt Cuts video in this thread here will help you with your thoughts RE that I think/hope as tbh there is no one clear cut answer as too many factors make that an "it depends" kinda thing. Does that video help to answer what you are asking there Knacky? Or is that just confusing things more as it is not specifically about hosting and linking?
You shouldn't be worrying about one link hurting/benefiting your rankings, focus on doing what is right for your traffic/visitors/business, if the link makes sense to any one or all of those, then add it in and don't think twice.
Knacky, actually you have 2 different IPs of the same C class. Just wanted to clarify that. AAA.BBB.CCC.xxx - your CCC-part should be different for your IP to be of a different C class. Now, there is no direct evidence that, if both the backlink site and the destination site are hosted on the same C-class domain, Google will consider it an attempt to manipulate SE rankings. What I mean is, if we're talking about just 1 link, I'm sure it won't hurt. But if Google sees dozens of links from IPs of the same C class, that could definitely look spammy. Big hosting providers normally offer IPs of different C classes, while some smaller ones may have IPs that all belong to the same C class. So, if a bunch of your links come from the same C class domains, it will definitely look as those all of those sites are likely located in the same area, and were likely set up by the same person/company. Of course, whether Google will look into or not, that's another question. But most back link software is able to detect that, then why not Google?