SEO and webhosting: One reseller account vs. multiple shared?

I have a half dozen or so websites that I am hosting each with a separate shared hosting plan. Currently it's still economical to host them separately but as I create more sites it would be cheaper to open a reseller account and host them all in there.

Is it a good idea to use reseller accounts? I've heard some say that if you want to have links between your sites than they should be on separate IP's. Does that really matter? Pros/cons?

 

Hi,
Yes, that will matter if you are going to swap the link between each other. But i will suggest to swap links by its relevancy..it also plays an important role while you want to get benefit of backlinks.

if you site having quality and relevancy of link swapping that it will not hurt if you are having all the site on single shared hosting.

 

So for people who are creating several sites that will generate adsense income, do you use reseller accounts?

 

if you are not havily interlinking your sites, then it would be economical to use one shared hosting plan (depending on your traffic and special requirements) to host all the sites. there is no reason to buy seperate hosting plan for each domain

 

If your going to be interlinking your websites, then its best to have them separate hosts but I have some very good ranking websites on the same IP's which are interlinked.

 

I just realized that I don't even need a reseller account but can host multiple domains with my basic shared account, each domain in a separate directory. The shared hosting plan is cheaper than the reseller. Any advantages to doing the reseller vs hosting multiple domains in a regular shared hosting account?

 

Just obtain a "unlimited" shared hosting account and you will be fine.

Warning though, Don't cross link between them. Google will penalize all sites on the IP address for "Interlinking".

You will get an instance PR1 for the primary site and the other will receive a PR0.

 

I gather that these accounts are called domain pointers or add-on domains. My current hosting plan is standard linux hosting with cPanel. I'm interested in making management of my hosting easy. As I increase the number of domains I control the management complexity increases.

For people who run multiple domains with adsense I'm curious, how do you do it?
Multiple shared accounts?
Reseller account?
Multiple add-on domains on a single shared account?

 

Is there any reason to get a reseller account as opposed to using addon domains if you are not playing webhost?

 

Reseller is the way to go because when one of your sites exceeds the bandwidth the other site wont go down with it. On shared hosting, 1 site effects all the other ones.

 

I'm not too worried about bandwidth right now. My sites are low bandwidth sites, few graphics and no video.

I am a little concerned, however, about server resources in the way of CPU usage and php memory usage. Not sure if this will be a problem on shared hosting. My sites run drupal.

 

if you are having multiple sites, better you go for reseller hosting..it will help you to mange all the sites separately...

 

economically..

most of the hosting can host unlimited domains now.. I pay less than $5 to host all my domains and my friends'. it's about 100 domains.. no biggie.

if you want to do no-follow backlinks to each site and each other, I don't think it's a good idea if you are SEO oriented.

so, cost wise, you don't even need reseller account. just sign up with one reliable hosting for just one shared account, there you have unlimited domains.

for SEO wise, I don't recommend to use either reseller or etc.

for Performance wise, you can actually get dedicated server starting at 30$ a month to 200$ a month or buy VPS if u don't want to spend a fortune. but still you get fantastic performance and speed. you will definitely know the difference.

so, it's your call. What is your main concern? Cost? SEO? Performance? but I do not really suggest you link to all your sites each other, maybe just once on the main page and put it under like "my recommendations" or "my friends", etc.. one link would be okay for PR calculations, but if you do more than that, I think search bots will discount your PR values.. but honestly, I don't think IP address is calculated on PR matter.. but domain linking very much would affect your PR even on the same hosting account. The best is to exchange with your niche sites.. and probably it looks like more natural links.. since SEbots do not like artificial links to be honest.

If you want have no concern about cost and love effective SEO, also loves fast performance, I suggest you buy dedicated server with extra IP address, let's say, if u have 5 domains, you can actually assign 1 IP, and you can get different range of IP, not sequentially if you ask nicely.

hope that helps

 

That does help thanks. It seems like doing shared hosting with addon domains is the way to go. But I'm trying to understand the pros/cons of it and also hear the experienced of those who have walked the path before me.

I'm interested in building niche topic/resource sites. I still consider myself in the beginning stages so I'm looking to operate as economically as possible. If the time comes when I need increased performance, I can cross that bridge when I come to it. I don't think it would be too difficult to move sites around or upgrade the hosting level. I currently pay $20/year for my hosting but this is per domain because I have separate hosting plans for each domain.

You mention you use a single $5/month shared hosting plan to host all your domains. Would you be open to talking a little bit about what you do? For example, do you run adsense? Do you run any cms?

 

You are welcome. For me, as long as you treat your webhosting as a webhosting it's totally fine.

I have heard many issues regarding hosting because they store files in the webhosting, run cache-related applications on the server which would slow down your overall performance.

Of course, economically is the way to go. I use web hosting buzz.. you can google or just read about web hosting dilemma and selection. Right now they offer 400GB diskspace with 5TB traffic, but I think the price is a bit up for some reason. As long as you use the space as web pages, you have no issue at all. And actually you can even store 5% of the given space temporarily. Normally, no question asked.

I am very open to let you know, I do quite alot with one web hosting account, I have over 100 pop3 mails and also static corporate websites about 7. I also have a couple of blogs. Also have a few not so active websites. I run mainly 2 wordpress, 1 joomla (testing). I also run adsense of course. Also I have two massive photo albums about 3gb worth of photos. As long as your files are linked to html/php files, it's all good.

So, as you are considering about economically, just go for it. there are many other good hosting as well. hostgator or 1and1, they offer good packages. But as you know, the choice is yours, I am not going to give you affiliate links or give you biased idea. But normally, the trick is, nowadays, all reliable web hosting services offer;

1. they have live support, so before you sign up, you talk to live support and see how knowledable they are.

2. google coupons, for example, if your webhosting name is supercool, google "supercool hosting coupons", good hosting always have coupons for new signups.. my hosting has it on their main site.

3. always use 1 month money back guarentee opportunity, if u face unhappy performance or service, always get the money back within 3 weeks..

4. check whether they give 1 free domain name when you sign up, reliable hosting usually have affiliation with domain registrar and they would give you ONE free when you sign up.

5. always use the word, I am currently a customer of xyz hosting, and most hosting would even help you with data migration and maybe also give you further discount.

6. always look for forums from hosting company, good ones usually install vbulletin (costs 150 bucks for license), if you don't see vbulletin forum from hosting company, it is very unlikely, they might be gone in a while.. and remember, if you are member in forum, it's very good that you get lengthy questions answers, also, you can have your signature indexed at your hosting forum.

7. check the PR of hosting company, sometimes, they do pretty good SEO work and partnership programs, that means they value their hosting address and they want to keep it that way, consequently meaning stability of the company.

hope that helps.

 

Thanks for the input. I mainly run drupal sites. I'm going to try running my latest domain as an addon domain to one of my existing accounts and see how it goes.

 

drupal is fine.. I used to one one drupal site too.. it's fantastic for CMS, especially with many participants.

you have not to worry as long as you are running CMS like drupal, joomla, gallery, etc etc. The most important thing is the traffic tolerance, if you are on slow network and slow machine, your page load rate will be significantly slow, it's always good to check out the network and machine specs.. Even from same hosting, I got different performance, that's why one of my tips above is to talk to LIVE support and u can even ask them to assign you a new machine if they recently added at data center. Most reseller can't do that, so you know who you are talking to..

I always fancy the people who owns data center and know what's going physically, now just service level. because it can get you fixed effectively. hope that helps.