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Shared Hosting & Weird Traffic Fluctuations

by webmonopoly
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I've noticed somewhat of an odd pattern with my traffic, wondering if anyone else has experienced this.

I have shared hosting with hostgator, with 5 addon sites, which are subdomains but are suppose to be recognized as individual websites.

Ive noticed when one of my sites gets a google traffic increase, one of my other add-on sites gets a google traffic decrease, almost like its being balanced out.

I can't seem to get traffic boosts on all of them together.

Is google recognizing these sites as connected somehow, maybe from the same IP address?? And regulating my traffic?

Or is this all a fluke?

I would totally separate the sites with their own IP's if this were the case...
#fluctuations #hosting #shared #traffic #weird
  • Profile picture of the author dbong
    Hey, how big of traffic fluctuations are we talking about here? If you are ranking for completely different keywords, I see no reason why Google would punish another site of yours for a different keyword. Google's goal is to provide the best match for the content listed, not even the playing field if one IP happens to be producing the best content across the board. Obviously, I wouldn't know for sure but it's just my guess that it is coincidental if the fluctuations are under 2k visitors or so.

    Once you start building a large number of websites I might recommend moving away from shared hosting, though. Maybe something more reliable like VPS or a dedicated server.
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    • Profile picture of the author webmonopoly
      Originally Posted by dbong View Post

      Hey, how big of traffic fluctuations are we talking about here? If you are ranking for completely different keywords, I see no reason why Google would punish another site of yours for a different keyword. Google's goal is to provide the best match for the content listed, not even the playing field if one IP happens to be producing the best content across the board. Obviously, I wouldn't know for sure but it's just my guess that it is coincidental if the fluctuations are under 2k visitors or so.

      Once you start building a large number of websites I might recommend moving away from shared hosting, though. Maybe something more reliable like VPS or a dedicated server.
      Hey,

      There all on completely different niche subjects. And yes all under 2k visitors day. Most ranging in the few hundreds a day.

      Its just strange because i swear this has happened a few times now. One of my new niche sites just got boosted up with almost a 70% traffic increase from google, while my oldest and most respected niche site dropped very oddly by about 30% in google traffic. About 1 day apart.

      And i do have my 301 redirects in place to avoid any duplicate indexing...
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    Never heard of anything like this. I am curious, but I do not used shared hosting.
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  • Profile picture of the author w13
    Try to move your hosting plan, shared hosting is good for low traffic.. You should consider to choose VPS or Cloud hosting since you had high traffic
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    • Profile picture of the author webmonopoly
      Originally Posted by w13 View Post

      Try to move your hosting plan, shared hosting is good for low traffic.. You should consider to choose VPS or Cloud hosting since you had high traffic
      100 - 300 visitors a day to the sites would be considered high enough for VPS??
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      • Profile picture of the author dbong
        Originally Posted by webmonopoly View Post

        100 - 300 visitors a day to the sites would be considered high enough for VPS??
        Not quite. Shared hosting is plenty enough to handle that kind of traffic
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