Will Virtual Hosting Drop Google Page Rank

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[batterysaver]

I had 25 websites all with there own IP addresses. I recently switched to a virtual host (it was considerably less expensive). Now, all 25 websites share the same IP. I don't link the sites to each other but I notice that my google ranking dropped with a couple of the websites.

Q: Does google ranking consider dedicated or virtual host?

Thanks

[jecasc]

No. To my knowledge not. All my sites are hosted on the same IP and I didn't recognize any negative effects. Wouldn't make much sense, because most websites on the Internet are on virtual hosts.

[Gus_R]

It was confirmed by googleguy ip sharing doesn't matter. Sites are treated as in dedicated server.

[wmburke]

From two tears of painful experience I can tell you, batterysaver, that "careful" is definitely the operative word here; if the virtuals are cross-linked it can lead to sudden and lengthy disappearances of the domains from Google.

Google used to not "like" virtuals at all, but over the last 6 - 8 months seems to have relaxed a bit re: virtuals.

Nonetheless, run "site:www.yourdomain.com keyword" and be sure Google's caching the correct pages for the correspondent site - I have virtuals that have each other's pages cross-cached and have had absolutely -no- success getting Google to correct the problem.

HTH