SEO Hosting... is this another Internet Marketing Gimmick ?

Many backlinking experts believe that obtaining backlinks from several different IP addresses is more valuable than backlinks from a single IP address.

Well the general idea of this type of product is Google will only take into account in their search algorithm by counting the number of incoming links with a website from different IPs than a single IP. Why? Because it is more legitimate.

Think about it, if Google allows a webmaster to boosts his website's Google ranking using same hosting account (effectively will have 1 IP) by developing multiple websites, (some one in the world is doing that), and interlink with them, then Google SEO will become super job to do. Right?

Many people in this forum has a unlimited domain hosting account can effectively snap multiple websites and point back to their main website and get first page Google ranking. If SEO is that easy, we don't need experts. May be this is the case in the past, but certainly NOT now.

So I do think a SEO hosting may somehow allow a webmaster to achieve what they want to achieve, but by how much? I don't know because I never try it before.

I've never tried it, but having different c-blocks linking in does seem to have more correlation than total number of links. With that in mind, I don't really think it's a gimmick. IP is one of the easiest ways for Google to identify "sister" websites.

SEO hosting is a gimmick in my opinion.

If you're creating a network get completely different IP's, not just different c-class.

Get shared hosting on different continents, use different whois data, don't use ads like adsense.

Use various cms, wordpress, static html, joomla etc..

Make a few posts and link to what you need ranked from 1-2 posts (not sitewide) also throw in some links to wiki or whatever. Use GOOD content don't just throw out trash.

A network of 25-50 sites is not that hard to protect. Start going over that and you're probably asking for trouble.

I think it depends on how much you plan on crosslinking the sites, if you are relying on "internal" backlinks for any significant portion of your SE juice you are making a mistake.

Since different IP addresses are considered to be saying one way of getting links in a natural way, so such methods might be helpful up to a degree but tens of other issues play roles in the world of SEO. For example, even if you buy such packs, but only rely on one link building source, so even though links have different IPs, but they all are still originated from a single hosting service provider or company.

Getting different IP links can be wonderful and most reputable companies are using this method.

Don't agree that SEo hostig is a scam and I do in fact see indications in my seo work that separate IPs matter. Why this is so strange to people I do not know. Domain names are not the language of computers. Computers read IP addresses at the base level and separate IP addresses do equal in my experience separate votes for your site.

That said I do find separate hosting accounts advantageous and do not presently use a SEO host. Some SEo hosts charge more per IP than good budget hosts which will have distinct IPs, geo locations etc anyway.

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It's not a gimmick, it can have many uses. Having multiple IPs/locations has advantages, whether you are creating a little blog network...or simply want to choose a server location for your target audience.