widgets.com - wodgets.com - wudgets.com on same IP-adress

is this excessive linking?

[pardo]

On of our client got several domains (10) with about 10 different content pages. About widgets, widgets rental, wodgets and wudgets. All sites are physical located on 1 webserver with the same IP adres. Would it harm to link from all pages from domain 1 to the homepages of the other 9 related domains? From end-user/visitor perspective it make sense to show them related domains (and we offer the links on all pages for we don't know where they land in a site from a SERP) and thus relevant content, but I wonder if Google have the same idea about it ;)

[pardo]

Isn't there anybody that will share experience on this type of crosslinking between sites on the same server?

[karembeu]

I just noticed this morning that if I do a search for link:www.widgets.com then link:www.wodgets.com and even link:www.wudgets.com I get the same resuults, as if Google has collapsed the domains together under the one IP.

All our domains point to the same index page however, so I am not concerned if only 1 domain shows up in Google, as long as 1 of them does! We don't use them to try and pad Google, just for different vertical markets for the same product.

karembeu

[PatrickDeese]

Hi.

I am not sure what your question is exactly. Are you asking if you think G might penalize you for having multiple non-related domains on the IP address.

No, probably not.

But if you are asking if G might penalize you for having "competing" domains sitting on the same IP.

Maybe.

All I can tell you is that at one of the web hosting co's I use, an additional IP address in their hosting package costs $6 per year.

So, is it worth $6 per year to have seperate IP addresses for your domains.

It is for me.

[Krapulator]

If the content on each domain is unique and each domain has a good mix of other (outside) incoming links you should be OK.

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