2 sites same ip = problem?

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2 sites same ip = problem?

does it really matter?

htdawg

7:56 pm on Jul 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

hi all,

just a quick question, if you host 2 different sites with same ip address will that get you banned ( or considered spamming) on google?
www.sitename1.com
www.sitename2.com

i mean if you bought some hosting package that let you host op to say ten defferet sites on your space would that be considered spamming as well.

thanks
htdawg

Marcia

8:01 pm on Jul 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

That's perfectly legitimate name-based virtual hosting, and is very common. No problem with that as long as the same content doesn't appear with more than one domain name.

GoogleGuy

8:08 pm on Jul 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

What Marcia said. :) Virtual hosting is quite common.

diddlydazz

9:09 pm on Jul 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

hi htdawg

are you talking about just hosting them on the same box or are you talking about linking the domains to each other on the same box for the benefit of PR?

Dazz

mfishy

9:25 pm on Jul 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

If he wants to put up a link to his new site, how can anyone pssibly tell if it's for PR (The old kind) or PageRank?

I have heard about penalties for crosslinking, but having a few pages link together, for whatever purpose, certainly should not warrant a penalty.

The natural thing to do after a new site is up would be to mention it via a link from another site of yours. If Google were to penalize this, they are in fact encouraging manipulation of linking.

If someone puts up 100 domains that are one page a piece, then those links may need to be ignored by Google.

bateman_ap

10:19 am on Jul 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

Why can't the same content appear on more than one domain as long as the sites are exactly the same. For instance I have a site, bluewidgets.co.uk. Now there was a engine, I can't remember, might have been Inktomi that only crawled .coms. So bluewidgets.com was taken so I ended up buying blue-widgets-for-sale.com for this engine to crawl and just added it as an additional domain with my isp.

Then one day my perfect domain came up for grabs, darkblue-widgets.com so I grabbed that one and pointed the site again at it.

So I have currently 3 domains, I notice all 3 are indexed in google but only the main site shows up in results, the second site appears in inktomi so I can't get rid of it and the 3rd site gets occassional hits from direct typing of the name.

Google wouldn't peanalise for this would it?

fom2001uk

10:40 am on Jul 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

AFAIK, Google does penalise mirror sites.

too much information

12:16 pm on Jul 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

I don't think I really understand this.

I had a site called www.(entire company name).com and after deciding that the name was too long I bought www.(short abbreviation).com and had my hosting company set up a pointer for the new domain name to the old so that I didn't have to worry about people finding the site.

I no longer promote the old domain, and only keep it around because our e-mail comes through it and we still get a few hits from the old domain name.

Am I being penalized for this? I'm not trying to be sneaky at all, we found that people had trouble with the longer domain name (and it didn't fit on a business card).

If this is a bad thing, what can I do to fix the problem? And in the future if I go for a new domain name how should I set it up and handle the transition?

bateman_ap

1:04 pm on Jul 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

AFAIK, Google does penalise mirror sites.

Yeah I know that as both of the other two sites are PR0 but the main site shouldn't receieve a penalty should it (it currently doesn't but who knows in the future from a overzealous filter!)?

I also noticed it picked up my staging server which is on a completly different IP which is also PR0