Dedicated IP Address on my forum site www.astigtayo.com?
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Hello and Good Day,
Does having a dedicated IP Address to my site affect my search engine ranking?
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Highland,
I read this and went to do a bit of research regarding whether or not Google would ban an entire IP address.... Well I found nothing, either way. Typical Google. But, I think you are right and that I may have spread an urban myth or at least something that became an urban myth.
So, I agree, I do not think the entire IP address would be banned to begin with. Thanks for making me think.Best
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Mark Anthony
Nijzing is correct re that links from the same IP address have less value would be one effect on your site. The other in the case of a non dedicated server is if the other sites hosted on the host gator server you are on should have a spam site within the group, it can cause the search engines to ignore the entire IP address.
So you are on same server as SpammyJoe.com and he gets busted by Google, they will not list anything on that server. So, if you are not sure of the issues that could hurt you.
Best
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Some people have issued the warning of "Make sure you're not on a banned IP" but, so far, I've never seen an example where a person jumps onto an IP and finds out that Google banned that IP. Google bans sites, not IPs, and in every example I've seen, the sites banned on an IP all had some common problem (i.e. the server got hacked and malware was installed).
There has never been any advantage shown to having a dedicated IP vs being on a virtual host. What Nijzing means in his post is that some people like to build their sites to link to each other and use dedicated IPs to achieve that. As someone who virtual hosts, I can say that it really doesn't matter that much. I link my sites together (where it makes sense) and have had no real problems. Then again, I don't rely on those links wholly for my backlinks either. I think the whole "links your sites together by using different IPs" mess is a ton of work for no real gain.
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Hello Mark,
some say that IP adress is a factor for ranking but mainly in the sence that linking from the same ip adres to other websites with the same adres doesn't do much. Having a own server with a own ip adres is better (linkbuilding wise).
others say that ip adresses are only used to determine the country your websites is located and nothing more.
I don't think you can say for sure that it does affect your results but as long as you make sure that links come from other ip adresses i don't think it will harm your website
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