2 website on the same IP

ender33

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Hi, I have 2 websites on the same IP on vps server, I was wondering if they can affect each other for the SEO purpose? Shall I put them on different IPs Any advice please?
 

Deepanshu Gahlaut

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If you want that both sites have a great and good seo affect on each other then you should have both sites on different IP. For this you can give a link to each other from your websites. In seo the different C Class IP i.e. unique linking domain matters. That's why it's good to have both sites on different IP.
 
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Website on two different location ip is best for SEO. You can share your website stuff from one website to other and also your websites are shows different regions that is why different location of IP is best suitable for both the websites.
 
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lynxus

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    Nope. This is a myth mostly driven by SEo "Hosting" companies.

    Google are fully aware of the lack of IPv4 addresses and know that many many MANY websites use the same IP address. Especially small business websites using shared hosting.

    I suspect in extreme cases when an IP address is blacklisted for spammy emails or viral attacks, it may harm you.
     
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    money road

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    There are a lot of websites that rank well on the same IP

    OK ok so how google can sort websites on shared hosting?
    • webmaster tools- it will show who is webmaster
    • IP?- matters, but people using shared hosting, so?
    • Authorship tags- google+ account
    • whois domain- domain owner
     
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    There are a lot of websites that rank well on the same IP

    OK ok so how google can sort websites on shared hosting?
    • webmaster tools- it will show who is webmaster
    • IP?- matters, but people using shared hosting, so?
    • Authorship tags- google+ account
    • whois domain- domain owner

    They are called "footprints", there are lots of them, for example:

    Google analytics tracking code (or any web analytics code for that matter)
    Google adsense affiliate code
    Generic affiliate tracking code
    VAT - phone - email
    "about me" information
    links to the same facebook page
    links to the same twitter account

    and the list may continue...
     
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    fisicx

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    Having more than one site on the same IP is fine. Linking between them is fine if those links add value.

    Ignore all the those who suggest otherwise.
     
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    webgeek

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    If you've got the same domain registration details, Google has tied the 2 sites together under 1 ownership. If you put them on the same IP or same class-C, you're doing what most every site owner who doesn't have a heavy load/big traffic site does (those people use dedicated instead of shared).

    One of the easiest techniques for identifying 'bad' backlinks is to find one obvious spam site in a backlink profile and then look at other backlinks in their profile from the same owner individual. It's not a 100% of the time, but is true enough of the time that you can consider it fertile territory for hunting problems.

    As fisicx has said, interlinking can be a good thing (in moderation), providing the sites are complementary and not spun versions of the same information.

    The bad neighbourhood concept isn't as big a risk as often cited. Sure, if you're blackhatting it with one site, you could draw fire from Google. Do it the right way once and save yourself a ton of time down the road.
     
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    lynxus

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    I have read in many sources that seo hosting is not good for SEO

    I have always called BS on this.

    The main reason being, Google, Bing , anyone in the know. Knows that we have limited IPv4 address space left. ( Almost none left )

    With this in mind, it would be stupid for any company to encourage wastefulness of address space.
    This is why you can now have multiple SSL domains on a single IP, whereas before you had to have a separate IP per SSL site.

    Having 1 site per IP address is wasteful , stupid and is a detriment to the internet as a whole.

    No search engine will use this is a ranking method. Its possible they will see what sites are on the same IP and if its some kind of blackhat link nest, but that's as far as it goes.

    Wasting IP's per site is stupid, plain and simple stupid.

    Ref: An old ish post from Matt Cutts.
    https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/myth-busting-virtual-hosts-vs-dedicated-ip-addresses/

    Im confident that this statement still holds true today.

    Myth , Busted.. End of.
     
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    StevePoster

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    So just to confirm, if Matt Cutts says its true then its true????
    lol.

    Matt Cutts is a good man and he always intend to guide us but it doesn't mean that we always rely on him. As i said before its just a guide not always true because there is always changes. We have our own analysis and experience to provide our own studies to confirm.
     
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    If you want that both sites have a great and good seo affect on each other then you should have both sites on different IP. For this you can give a link to each other from your websites. In seo the different C Class IP i.e. unique linking domain matters. That's why it's good to have both sites on different IP.

    But, what if you are on shared hosting and are sharing an IP with other site owners. If someone who owns another site on the same IP is using blackhat, wouldn't that also hurt your own search engine ranking?
     
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    That is very true. Your content is the most important factor for SEO. Other factors have lower weights.
    Nobody knows the weight of the ranking factors. I've seen many websites with zero home page content outranking well-designed and structured websites with a 100% unique content. Domain age, website speed, User Experience, these are all factors that are very important and can't be compared. In my opinion, having a separate C-class IP address can only benefit your website's ranking. Google is updating its algorithms non stop, so who knows what weight will the IP factor have after the next major update?!
     
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    Deepanshu Gahlaut

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    But, what if you are on shared hosting and are sharing an IP with other site owners. If someone who owns another site on the same IP is using blackhat, wouldn't that also hurt your own search engine ranking?
    Actually, Google handles virtually hosted domains and their links just the same as domains on unique IP addresses.
    if you have 1,000 sites running on the same IP address which all link to each other and to bad linking neighborhoods, the PageRank between those links which are being passed along should be diluted and if some of those sites are practicing questionable methods of, well, spamming Google … having them all grouped together should set off some kind of red flags.
     
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