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The benefits from having a dedicated IP
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Having a dedicated IP for each website is considered by some experts as an advantage for search engine optimization. There is a common believe that sites with dedicated IP addresses do better in the search engine results than those on shared IPs. Such sites do not share the risk of being banned for sharing the same IP in case another website hosted on the same server gets banned by a search engine.
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I have 7-8 ad-sense blog websites under one hosting, Now I am planing to create selling website. My blogs were not having good content and they are decreasing in ranking (my be panda). So I need to remove those websites from the hosting? should they effect my new selling website negatively?
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In the great Google infrastructure, I'm sure that Google knows what IP address your site is hosted on, and all the ones tied to it. In one of the past MOZ blog posts you can see a number of factors Google looks at to see what you control. We used dedicated IP's for each client, just in case anything ever happened to one account, it would not affect the others. They are close in IP address range, since they are on the same block, but none are on the same number. This isn't an attempt to gain SEO rank, as much as it is to protect the client.
Locally, I have reason to believe its a different story. For example, we are located in St Louis, and use a local server center located in downtown St Louis. After changing our site from hostgator under a shared IP, (Provo, Utah) to a local server center, we saw an drastic (in internet time) improvement in site load time, responsiveness, and believe it or not, a ranking boost....true story, no joke. It wasn't a large boost, but we moved up 2 spots on our main keyword on page one, and 1-2 in other places. We didn't make any other changes to the site, other than adding a few blog posts, and this was not around any major algorithm shift or update. We have seen this pattern repeat with other clients as well.
My guess is that Google liked the decreased load times, the local server location (as it matched the city on our site, somehow verifying our location further), and the fact that the site was on a dedicated IP address. If we had just changed the site's IP address by itself, I do not think we would have seen any impact or result change.
"there is really no SEO benefit of having a unique IP for each of your sites unless you're attempting to pass link juice between each, which falls into the greyhat category."
I don't think you would get away with this for very long, or that it would benefit you in any way. Google would see that you host or control these sites through your analytics account, or IP range. If you wanted to pull it off, and have separate analytics accounts, dedicated IP's etc, I doubt the result would be worth the time.
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Depending on what your site's purpose is, I have to respectfully disagree with the above comments. If you're site is selling something, you need an SSL certificate, and (I'm reasonably) certain, you can't have that without a dedicated IP address. All things equal, e-commerce sites with an SSL certificate will rank higher than sites without one. Plus, there are other non-seo benefits to a dedicated ip address, and it's inexpensive. To me it's a no-brainer, but I understand why people would disagree.
- Ruben
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Google bans sites (domain names) rather than IP addresses. However if you are thinking of moving your site so https then you would need a dedicated IP address. Yoast has published an interesting article here Moving your website to https / SSL: tips & tricks perhaps that's what they are referring to.
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I agree with Bill, there is really no SEO benefit of having a unique IP for each of your sites unless you're attempting to pass link juice between each, which falls into the greyhat category.
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Nope, as far as I know. Matt Cutt's commented on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsSwqo16C8s
The only time I could see it was useful if you were doing some black hatish stuff and didn't want multiple domains on the same C Block that were related, but I'm pretty sure Penguin/ Panda is catching that sort of thing now.
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