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Hosting multiple domains with Hostgator Baby package

by srhudson
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In order to use hostgator to host multiple domain names, you have to go through the whole add on domains to the root domain. This is basically adding a subdomain only it has the appearance of an entirely different website.

My question is this.. Does this have any negative effect on SEO and search engine rankings?

Thanks

Seth
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  • Profile picture of the author Bruce Hearder
    No impact whatsoever.

    All the search engines see is that there is a bunch of domains all hosted on the same IP address.

    Don't worry about that becuase, if you did a bit od reasearch you might find that there are something like 5000+ domains all associated with that same IP address..

    Just the way hosting companies work.

    So, to answer your question, no negative impact whatsoever..

    Hope this helps

    Bruce
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  • Profile picture of the author mali75850
    It should not make any difference. SEO does not look for IPs.
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  • Profile picture of the author faceblogger
    It will not affect. Since Hostgator baby package is a shared hosting package and there are many domain hosted under same IP. Thus, it does not have any significant SEO disadvantage.
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  • Profile picture of the author Janeson
    Multiple domain web hosting is basically a small reseller web hosting plan which allow you to host additional domains (different web sites) on the same account. Hosting providers ranked by the best price-value ratio. Host reliability, uptime, key features, bonus features, customer support, past and current user feedbacks, user-friendliness and hosting awards have been taken into account as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author jcdmp
    Hi

    i had the same question...got Baby package too

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author micksss
    Addon domains are a great money saver with no SEO down side.
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  • Profile picture of the author campers
    I have a baby package too. One thing I do when I add subdomains is change the default folder to be under the root directory instead of the www directory where your main domain is.
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    • Profile picture of the author Vincent1988
      I'm using ovh.fr. It's a french based web hosting comany. Very cheap and you can have until 1000 domains in one hosting. LOVE it
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  • Profile picture of the author jeffam
    There is a negative impact if you interlink your properties.
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  • Profile picture of the author PPPPaul
    This is news to me -- I always thought that unique/static IP's were necessary for each domain to maximize GoogleJuice.

    abs007 and jeffam are saying there IS a negative impact interlinking properties; could someone please explain?

    Thanks,
    Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author fsnsh6
    same IP shall not interlink each other, or else th google robots will deteced the same IP for a lot of domain link to each other, try to host other to link to different IP domains will be better
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  • Profile picture of the author iaxia
    Google is starting to hit hard for this if they are connected sites. We had up a blog farm for a few years and all were doing well then one day they all were dropped from Google. We spread them out across different networks and this moved us back into the top 10 pages. But we were 1st and 2nd pages before the hit. Google now even compares domain reg info. If the sites are relevant in content on the same ip. That may be a flag also.
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    • Profile picture of the author newbie365
      Yeah, it doesn't make a difference.. To tell you the truth there are 1000's of "small" packages on that server.. It's called shared hosting. Spiders etc, just look through domains NOT IP's.
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  • Profile picture of the author vivaarturo
    baby plan is great to host all your sites.
    I personally prefer to use a reseller account and this can be done once you have a bit more cash flow.

    I find it is easier to manage my sites with a reseller account and when I want to sell a site it is a cleaner transfer.

    Cheers
    Arturo
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  • Profile picture of the author Easy Marketer
    Many of the training programs say to start a sub domain. I hope they are right.
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  • Profile picture of the author joseph01
    John
    Can parked domain hamper the site's SEO performance in search engines?

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    "According to Google, the preferred method is to use an addon domain and then 301 redirect the addon to your primary domain.

    So, yes it may. A parked domain may be considered duplicate content, though only the search engines know for sure. Duplicate content is not bad, and in the case of cPanel parked domains, it may not have any side effect at all. Some people worry that Google will rank one page from one domain, and another page from another domain, thus distributing their potential rank into multiple domains; however, this is highly debated. "
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