SEO and Hosting multiple domains on one account

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Hi all, my web guy has just come on to me and said his host warned him that domains hosted on the same hosting account will not perform on SEO? I'm guessing the first one you set up would but the others wouldn't.

This seems absolutely crazy can anyone confirm or deny?
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  • Profile picture of the author kk075
    I'd call BS on that one (and if you don't know what BS means since you're not from the US, it's the stuff that comes out of the backside of the bull).

    As long as you're with a major hosting company then you should be fine.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Hacks
      Originally Posted by kk075 View Post

      I'd call BS on that one (and if you don't know what BS means since you're not from the US, it's the stuff that comes out of the backside of the bull).

      As long as you're with a major hosting company then you should be fine.
      Linksky...and pretty sure BS is reasonably universal dude (which might be an Americanism too)
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  • Profile picture of the author ksmusselman
    Originally Posted by Steve Hacks View Post

    Hi all, my web guy has just come on to me and said his host warned him that domains hosted on the same hosting account will not perform on SEO? I'm guessing the first one you set up would but the others wouldn't.

    This seems absolutely crazy can anyone confirm or deny?
    Sounds like this guy's host was talking out his you-know-what in hopes he could con the guy into buying separate hosting packages.

    I have five domains/sites on one shared hosting plan and sometimes the "add-on" sites do better than the primary.

    Like was already mentioned, if you're with a long-standing, reputable hosting site, you'll be fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author Peter Lessard
    Irrelevant unless of course you are trying to build a private blog network all linking back to one money site. In that case you would want IP diversity.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Hacks
      Originally Posted by Peter Lessard View Post

      Irrelevant unless of course you are trying to build a private blog network all linking back to one money site. In that case you would want IP diversity.
      My situation is I am running multiple websites and e-stores across niches....made sense to host them all with the same host.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    That host has no clue what he is talking about.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim3
    As you may be from the UK, I can use the expression 'he's talking total cobblers'
    and you will know what that is.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Hacks
    OK, just got flamed by my man for posting the question in the wrong context. The web host was saying that you will get a negative score from google for having sub-directories. He used the words 'will probably not rank high' which I took to formulate the OP.
    This is the message he received.
    there will be a sub-directory in your account that contains your added domains' web sites. Web traffic will use a masked URL forward for those domains and websites within your main account. This is what nearly all web hosting companies offer as multiple domain hosting accounts (even as so called "reseller accounts", however LinkSky does offer SE friendly reseller plans, see below). BUT there is a big disadvantage with this approach when it comes to maintaining any kind of success for commercial web sites.
    The problem with any sub-directory hosted site is the web sites that are in your subdirectories will probably not rank very high when it comes to content relative searches among Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. This is specifically due to duplicate content penalties (which is actually less a penalty and more a problem with sites that do this and the mechanics that SEs use to select the most relevant content for any given search).
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