Unlimited Hosting in One Account

Will this hurt me?

[steveweber123]

My host allows me to host an unlimited number of sites. I create folders on the root and then in control panel I specify which domains are where.

For example: www.mysite#1.com has its files in the www/mysite#1 folder.
www.mysite#2.com has its in www/mysite#2 folder, etc.

But when viewing the site's index page, the browser's address page only shows the URL...for example www.mysite#1.com

I am not sure what kind of redirect this is.

I have been creating single page sites with the above conditions just so they can start getting some history. I then take them one by one as I have time and move them to another host and start increasing their size. This seems to be working and I am happy with the results in the search engines.

My question is this:

I am getting ready to create a lot more of the single page sites. Is there any way I could be hurting myself by doing it in this way? Is there anything I should be aware of? (I mean with respect to anything negative from the search engines.)

Thank you

[jonrichd]

Steve,

It sounds like what your'e doing is perfectly OK -- you are essentially creating a number of virtual hosts on top of the same IP address, which is how the majority of sites are hosted. While internally each of your sites are in different directories, they appear as unique sites when accessed through the Internet. If you are really concerned, use the server header checker [webmasterworld.com] to make sure they return HTTP 200 responses. Assuming my guess is right, you could set uo addditional pages, and not have to move to another host.

I think the only potential danger you face is if you use the same sources for all your sites for backlinks .. this could indicate to the engines a link network, which is possibly a bad thing. OTOH, the same thing could happen even if each of the sites were hosted on separate IP addresses with different hosts.

[caveman]

Another possibility is that a SE spam detective wipes out the whole IP during a hand check after concluding that the collection of sites on the IP are spammy. (Not saying they are or are not; I have no idea.) In any case, the probability of that is very low me thinks.

[steveweber123]

Thank you for your advice. I feel better now with knowing my plan is probably OK and not going to hurt me down the road.

No, I never link the sites together at all. They are all different topics.

And they aren't spammy, so that part should be fine. In fact, I feel like I do better with getting the pure content indexed in Yahoo before I put AdSense on the pages. Maybe it is just my imagination, but that's probably another post topic anyway.

Thanks again!