Dedicated IP address improves rankings?

Adam Jackson · 11-07-2009, 11:40 PM

I have a site that's over 8 years old and shares an IP address with over 60 sites. I'm wondering if I get a decicated IP address for my site if it will help increase the rankings. The site has over 400 pages.

Appreciated all input...

Adam

GuerrillaIM · 11-07-2009, 11:47 PM

I have never seen any evidence to see search engines penalizing sites due to IP address, they usually weed out bad sites with domains. I have plenty of sites on shared hosting that rank very well

Allan Rich · 11-08-2009, 12:26 AM

Some people argue that it doesn't matter; some say it does. Matt Cutts made a statement on his blog regarding Dedicated IP vs Virtual and Pagerank, he said they're all treated the same. Of course PR is overrated and doesn't mean anything.

If you want to start interlinking your sites, don't have them all under the same IP and limit the number of sites under each IP. If possible use different C-class IP's.

In my opinion, if your host has hunderds of websites under the same IP as yours... it can devalue your site if the IP happens to be blacklisted.

Hope this helps.

GuerrillaIM · 11-08-2009, 06:45 PM

Yes, only time you have to worry about IP is when you are interlinking to try to boost your ranking.

madness222 · 11-09-2009, 01:15 AM

Links to virtually hosted domains are treated the same as links to domains on dedicated IP addresses.

kkchoon · 11-09-2009, 04:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Allan Rich

Some people argue that it doesn't matter; some say it does. Matt Cutts made a statement on his blog regarding Dedicated IP vs Virtual and Pagerank, he said they're all treated the same. Of course PR is overrated and doesn't mean anything.

If you want to start interlinking your sites, don't have them all under the same IP and limit the number of sites under each IP. If possible use different C-class IP's.

In my opinion, if your host has hunderds of websites under the same IP as yours... it can devalue your site if the IP happens to be blacklisted.

Hope this helps.

I agreed!

Although no one knows how Google calculate the links, but same domain or IP will greatly decrease the link juice.

Diversify is the key here ...

warrich · 11-13-2009, 10:57 AM

i have heard in some cases google block(ban) all the sites on same ip if something big against tos, . in some cases blacklisted ip also badly perform (example spamming) correct me if i am wrong.

kkchoon · 11-13-2009, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by warrich

i have heard in some cases google block(ban) all the sites on same ip if something big against tos, . in some cases blacklisted ip also badly perform (example spamming) correct me if i am wrong.

If this is true, share hosting might be a big problems... I think Google will anticipate this before they ban you.

askloz · 11-13-2009, 04:44 PM

having a dedicated IP address is NOT about rankings. it's about getting your site network up and linking to those other dedicated IP's, so, in a way, it's a border line of "yes, it does improve rankings if you use dedicated ip addresses properly"

Michael Nguyen · 11-13-2009, 04:49 PM

askloz is correct. Saying that my sites are numero UNO on sharedhosting for competitive keywords.

Craig Zimbrowski · 11-13-2009, 05:53 PM

Its is not compulsory to have it for getting SEO benefit, if you have relevant links, good content, and your site is properly seo, even if you are on shared IP you can increase ranks.

InternetMarketingIQ · 11-13-2009, 05:55 PM

In and of itself it makes no difference. The only case where it can make a difference is when someone on a shared IP gets themselves banned and your site gets banned by association and yes this still happens!!!

For example I block IP's all the time from certain sites to cut down on bot traffic coming out of the far east... however there are people in Australia that are on IP's that I also block and get banned because of it. I'd actually like their traffic, but it's not worth the effort of dealing with the other bad traffic. Now this is not the same example as hosting but it can still happen if certain services choose to ban the "bad guys" and your are banned by association.

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