Additional domains on hosting plan, how does google see it?

Does the same IP address cause any conflict?

[RexEdhlund]

Man I need to start wearing a t-shirt that says "What would Google Do?" since that's all I'm thinking about lately. I am almost out of the newbie zone and ready to start doing some major building. Now I just want my foundation to be firm.

SO... I have a couple of hosting plans at GoDaddy and they allow for additional domains to be hosted within the account. Aliases that go to a specified folder on the hosting account. In a browser window, without looking at the IP address, it appears as any old hosted domain. One could host a couple of dozen little local biz domains on the same hosted account.

Sometimes the domains may link to each other and I don't want Google to go all blacklisty on me so I thought I'd better look into it. I am wondering if this will cause Google to not recognize the additional domains for their own content value as individual domains, or maybe on the flipside because of the abundance of content, it valuates the original domain that is the hosted account.

I of course also worry they may think my white hat seo is getting darker. Godaddy offers free hosting with domain purchase and depending on the consensus I may rather put my not-used-as-much domains on that plan and suffer the Godaddy banner on top. Aliases sound so sketchy, criminal record-like, I don't want to be tricky just prudent (cheap).

[FlexAjaxSEO]

Having mutliple sites on a domain is fine if the content is not similar and IF you have the time to make multiple sites - golden rule MAKE ONE SITE well instead of having "sites+sites+sites+etc" that fill up with (a) almost-spam-like need for "your space" on the web.

[edited by: FlexAjaxSEO at 5:57 am (utc) on Nov. 18, 2007]

[rjwmotor]

I'm in a similar situation as well. My primary commerce site is directed towards a core retail audience. I am setting up another site that is very similar but directed towards a different type audience. I have a very large hosting account that can accomodate both but am concerned about G. If I assign a seperate IP address to both will there be a problem?

[superclown2]

An average hosting company's server holds about 200 to 600 websites on a single IP address. It doesn't seen to do those sites any harm provided that no attempt is made to interlink them, the shared IP address would be a dead giveaway. If you're lucky enough to have several IP addresses on the same server the same warning applies because the addresses will be too close. To make a difference the addresses would have to on different Class Cs (or /16) in other words 200.200.200.x and 200.200.199.x would be OK but 200.200.200.x and 200.200.200.y would not. That's the conventional wisdom, anyhow.

[Marcia]

The question with add-on domains is what do you do about canonical issues, getting the domain pointing to the folder to only resolve with www? Is it handled by .htaccess in that particular folder, or the one for the main domain on the account?

And BTW, does Godaddy allow mod_rewrite on their hosting?