Sites hosted on a single IP

[morefood2001]

Many hosting companies put hundreds of websites on a single ip address. This is a common practice since ips are short and web sites are not.

Does having your site hosted on a server with several hundred other sites under 1 ip address affect the site's seo any?

[Jordan]

Yes, google penalizes you for this and google is the only Search Engine that matters, ATM.

[morefood2001]

I'm going to start moving sites to their own ips then lol. Thanks!

[Jordan]

I would although I don't think it hurts that much. If you figure it out, let us know.

[morefood2001]

I'm no SEO expert, I would really like to hear from a real expert though

[kresh7]

Theres a little trick that you can use if you want to see how many sites are hosted on a webserver
First move to Live Search then in the search field put this
IP:<192.168.1.1> replace the Ip 192.168.1.1 with the IP of the WebHosting Provider and you will find every site that is hosted on that server

[morefood2001]

I never knew about that trick, I've always used domaintools. +rep! Thanks!

[TcM]

Yeah, kresh7 is quite good with these things!

[phpforfun]

also, myipneighbors.com

Find someone who is hosted on godaddy, hostmonster, bluehost, etc etc, and type there URL in. I did someone that was on godaddy, I found close to 300 sites

[TcM]

Well, these things are common.. I guess even AmpHosted does that.. I never looked at mine... gonna check it though

My blog, which I'm really working hard on, is doing quite ok... and many good websites there are on shared hosting so I guess it's still ok.