IP Address Differences

Is having multiple sites on one IP bad?

[naturesflavors]

I currently have one dedicated server with one IP address. Somewhere I heard that it was best to have differences in the Class C block of the IP addresses, but I don't know how much influence that has on my ranking.

I currently have two stores, and a couple gateway/informational sites. One of my informational sites is getting a PR0 in Google, and I've just submitted the second store.

My question is: will Google penalize me for having too many sites on a single IP address?

Second question: if I purchase a block of 5 consecutive IP addresses

(123.123.123.1, 123.123.123.2, etc...)

will this help me at all? Or are the IP differences TOO small?

- Jonathan

[jdMorgan]

naturesflavors,

Hundreds of thousands of sites world-wide run on shared IP addresses. It is not, in and of itself, a problem. No search engine that matters cares about this.

However, if you have have multiple domains all providing the same services/products, and use multiple domain names and sites only to "cast a wider net" on the Web, then you may indeed get in trouble for duplicate sites, domain name spamming, or a related problem. But this kind of trouble would not "influence" your ranking, it would kill it (PR0), most likely as a result of a human review following a spam complaint.

Having no experience in that aspect, I'll refrain from further speculation, but you can host as many sites as you like on one IP, until the sites slow to a crawl due to 'net bandwidth limitations, or the server crashes. :)

Jim

[naturesflavors]

Is there any way to check to see if a domain has been banned at all? Like a Google e-mail address so someone can review notes on a file?

- Jonathan