The Final Word : Different Domains, Diff IPS

[pstatus]

Okay, some say it helps in SEO, some say it doesn't.

Who has the final answer. I have about 30 domains on 2 ips. Some are related and interlinked. Now, is this a problem.

Will my sites benefit more from being on different class c ips?

I here conflicting stories.. i would like the final convincing answer with support if possible.. about to invest..

thanks,

Ben

[johnafrankllin]

Its ok to interlink the website with same theme. It will not harm your ranking at all. One single shared server can host millions of web sites and who knows who is the owner, as no spiders checks for the owner status, it only checks for the IP. A number of sites being hosted on same shared server. i have also interlinked my many site. only thing to take in consideration is the relevancy. if the sites are relevant we can interlink it will help getting ranking boost for each other.

[KingPin]

Originally Posted by pstatus

Will my sites benefit more from being on different class c ips?

Simple answer - Yes.

Don't interlink sites on the same IP, especially if you own them because G, Y or M are not silly and they buy whois info so they know that domain is yours anyways. Simply buy another IP for that site, it doesn't cost much to do.

"if the sites are relevant we can interlink it will help getting ranking boost for each other."

I think someone gave you false information there.

KP

[johnafrankllin]

Originally Posted by KingPin

"if the sites are relevant we can interlink it will help getting ranking boost for each other."

I think someone gave you false information there.

KP

Sorry to say but i have seen practically the benefit of interlinking.

[smeagain]

In my experience sites on the same IP are OK to interlink applying the same relevency and quality criteria as any other linking arrangement.

We have (or should have ) known for some time that introducing links from any site or directory regardless of quality or relevence will not help and in fact may be to the sites detriment. This underlying principle of quality and relevence is the same when on shared IPs. Sharing an IP in no way diminishes the value of quality relevent links. It does however drastically increase the detection rate of CONTRIVED links for links sake.

At a search engine conference once, the rep from Google told me more or less exactly what I have personally found since and describe above.

[DJDave]

from experience, I one had a problem where a couple of my sites were sharing IPs and one was accused of spamming. What actually happened was that someone was using a old unused and forgotten about web enquiry form. We removed the page, but because the sites shared an IP, effectively all of them were accused.

[livetech]

Thing is though which I'm confused with is all this "relevance".

Take our company. We design tourism sites, accountants sites, solicitor sites, online shops, etc. They're all completely different. But they can all be classed as relevant as they are all designed by our company.

Assuming Google defines relevance by comparing text within a site with each site as one of the methods, then surely if my company names appears on their site, and their company appears on my site, surely that'd be classed as relevance?

[smeagain]

IMO, Google judges relevence as:
"Like Minded"
"Theme Sharing"
"Related Market Sector"
and other text descriptive etc content .

Comon designer I would definately say is not in the mix.

[tb987]

If the search engines know who owns the domains from the whois information then logically there should be no advantage being on a different class-c for domains with identical whois, but there is. I don't think they use whois info as standard, perhaps just for investigating spam sites manually.

Google also know what domains you have registered in your anlytics account, webmaster tool, Adsense account, what mx records are mapped to Gmail for domains etc.

Should we worry about this? Do you have multiple Google identities? Do you vary your whois info?



Are we talking theoretical risk or real risk?

[smeagain]

The most important issue here is to have "Nothing to Hide"
Google is not looking to bury good sites that use methods within their guidelines. If you are taking a flyer because you think the risk of being buried or banned is worth it, then covering your tracks has to start from day one. It would be folly to think that if you move the hosting around, that Google won't remember that they were once "Co-Hosted".

If you've got nothing to hide, this additional complication can be ignored and more time spent on the things that matter.