Addon domains penalized?

Low ranking for addon domains?

[neomodus]

Hello,

We have a network made up by over 100 webistes, all with their own domain.

To be easier to manage, we have all 100 domains as addon domains in a single account. (we created the addon domains with Cpanel)

To the user, each site seems like an independent site. However google ranks our sites low (while Yahoo ranks us high), and we are thinking that the reason might be that all websites are sitting on the same account as addon domains.

Can this be a reason for our low Google ranking? Or it must be something else?

Thanks.

[neomodus]

Anybody that knows a good search engine specialist that could give an answer? We are willing to pay for an expert advice.

[Rick_M]

I doubt the fact they are addon domains would be a factor, as with Cpanel addon domains, the search engines see the same thing as the end user. The only issue that is a factor is that all domains are on the same IP address. At this time, I haven't seen anything convincing that Google penalizes for multiple sites on the same IP, but many people have theorized that multiple crosslinking, especially from the same IP address may lead to penalties. It make sense that a search engine would penalize for this, as it is probably an easy filter to implement and would identify quite a bit of unnatural crosslinking. Again, I haven't seen any proof of this. I would expect there is something else with your sites that is keeping them from ranking.

[jaffstar]

To the user, each site seems like an independent site. However google ranks our sites low (while Yahoo ranks us high), and we are thinking that the reason might be that all websites are sitting on the same account as addon domains.

My feeling is this could be due to the fact that they ARE on the same class C & possibly interlinking them.

[neomodus]

Is it possible to have addon domains with different class C IP address?

[Powdork]

How old are they?

[neomodus]

the domains were bought many years ago. The addon domains were created in this account some months ago.

[phantombookman]

the domains were bought many years ago. The addon domains were created in this account some months ago

Hunker down you're in the middle of a sandstorm!
A bucket and spade are the order of the day - all you can do is make sandcastles until google decides otherwise

Commiserations from a fellow sufferer
Rod :(

[paladin]

you may want to try and add &filter=0 to the URL when you search in Google.