SEO, duplication andStatic IP Address

using one IP address for multiple sites and the resulting SEO

[brushwoodnursery]

I have a great package from my web host that allows me many domains, great page load speeds and tons of bandwidth. I've started using extra domains for linking and SEO to drive folks to my stores (two sites). However, since I'm running ecommerce, I have a static IP address and all of my domains come from that IP. Do the big engines read the IP address or just the domain? In other words, will they knock my results down lower if they recognize all the content originates from the same place?
With hosting coming cheap these days, would it be better to place these linking SEO'd sites elsewhere?

[pmkpmk]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

The number of webservers on shared IP's (usually called "virtual servers") is most likely outnumbering the webservers with a dedicated IP addresses. So it's more or less the rule - not the exception - that different websites resolve to the same IP address. So no worries in that area.

However, please be cautious when it comes to so called "vanity domains"! As an example, if your site is about blue widgets, it may reside on bluewidgets.com. You may also register navybluewidgets.com and coolbluewidgets.com. Nothing wrong with that, als long as you decide for ONE of these domains to be the primary domain, and redirect(!) the other domains to the primary. If you make the website accessible at all the other domains too, you are running danger of getting a "duplicate content" penalty by the search engines.

Hope that helps.

[topr8]

>>I've started using extra domains for linking ... and all of my domains come from that IP

you won't get the benefit you were hoping for by this method :(

[brushwoodnursery]

Thanks! I'm learning a lot already! The other sites will have different formats but similar content with prominent linking to product pages. The idea is to send the product pages higher as well as drive the potential customer through those sites to the product pages.
There's a company out of Poland doing this with elements of their main site. They're actually managing to crowd the first page on google to some extent.

[pmkpmk]

So what you are planning to do is:

site-1/productpage ---link---> mainsite/productpage
site-2/productpage ---link---> mainsite/productpage
site-3/productpage ---link---> mainsite/productpage

where site-1, site-2, site-3 and mainsite have different layout and (slightly) different content, but talk aubout the same thing?

If yes, then what you are planning to do is called a "linkfarm". This used to work great some 2-3 years ago (which in internet-terms is like the 1950ies), but does not work "quite so well" anymore, especially not from a single shared IP.

My honest suggestion would be to kick site-1, site-2 and site-3 and focus on good, continually growing content for mainsite.

[brushwoodnursery]

Hmm,
I figured it was nothing new. But Google states somewhere in their depths something about relevant pages linked to a page helping the ranking. That's my motivation for this. have they moved beyond that method and only work individual relevance? If that's the case, you're right. I just need to work my content more.

[abbeyvet]

relevant pages linked to a page helping the ranking

Still is and probably always will be important. But they don't mean links from sites owned and operated by the same person and created for the sole purpose of linking in.

They were less able to filter out such links and differentiate between them and 'genuine' votes for a page's quaity, as evidenced by other sites linking to it, a couple of years back but they are getting better and better at it now and you would most likely be wasting your time with your plan.

[pmkpmk]

Brushwoodnursery - this text is a bit old but still valid in many aspects. Maybe you want to check it out as a starting point. Once you mastered it, then might be the time to go in to more advanced schemes.

Here you go: 26 steps to 15k a Day [searchengineworld.com]

[brushwoodnursery]

Thank you! My platform handles some of these and I'm doing some of the others. I think the point about solid content is a good one. It is also the hardest to do well (for me anyway).
Back in 2001 we ranked so well with a simple html site. The remnants of it still rank well where I've worked on it. Getting it back to where it was should be a priority for me since it does rank well.
Content, content content... oh, for the time it takes to make that happen!

[pmkpmk]

Get some "content monkeys" from college, highschool dropouts, pre-graduates. What about your significant other? Nephews? Neighbours? As long as they have writing skills....