[PartDigital]

I'm working with a client right now who has some notions about seo that I've never heard of.

He's creating about informational sites in order to generate revenue from ads such as adsense.

His biggest idea that I'm not so sure about is this.

"We should put the websites on different servers as different IP addresses will help with traffic."

Does having unique ip addresses help with SEO? I had recommended he put all his websites on one server that way we can run all the sites off one system and it would make maintenance much easier.

[Limbo]

the same ip is not a big issue by any means - it's one of hundreds of things you can do to improve your position in the SERPS.

Your reasoning is sound - if the sites are high traffic however, with a large user based separate servers might be a nice insurance policy - not all your eggs in one basket...

then there is the cost implications...

For SEO reasoning alone I'd say it is probably more bother than it's worth to hosting them on different accounts.

[PartDigital]

thanks. do any of you have a good resource that covers SEO? My client has it in his head that IP addresses are really important and I can't for the life of me, persuade him different.

[EngAdven]

Don't you just hate clients who have heard the latest tip about SEO from a friend down the pub, or spam that guarrantees to get them to the top. Generally the tips are years out of date and spammers never work.
I've written a summary of the main things they should be doing at Make money online This should keep them occupied and doing something useful.
I generally explain that if they know about something then everyone else does and it therefore does not work any more. In this case I think you clients heard half a story and understood why it might make a difference or why he should consider doing it.

[PartDigital]

hey, thanks for the response/advertisement

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[PSDgator.com]

having different IPs for your sites helps the PageRank. What your client is trying to say is that you can make link building easier if your sites are on a different IPs. He will put links on one to another so to raise their "relativity" and so to help SERPS results and PageRank.

[website-design]

Im not sure ... cant quote it exactly... but i have read somewhere that google considers the ip address of where the website is hosted ... so if the website is hosted in eg. uk... it would have a different ip address to that in e.g. ireland, usa , india etc.

there is also another theory i think that the more inbound links you get from websites hosted on different ip addresses it would help with your ranking - broader chances of your website coming up in the local versions of the search engine... e.g. google.com, gooogle.co.uk etc.

Again i can't quote this but i certainly remember reading it somewhere :-)

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[EngAdven]

Google does provide national and local searches.
To know you are in the UK you should have a .co.uk or UK hosting. I've definitely heard problems with UK shops having .com and european or US hosting.
One big site or lots of small linked sites is a big topic for discussion. You can work out the maths of which is best and because Google now scans and ranks different keywords for lower pages better it is generally assumed that one large site is better. Outward sites links can also downgrade a site.
I'd use your common sense though. If you can make 5 big sites that all feature strongly and draw their own traffic then that is probably best. If not then the 5 sites would probably make one better site that would bring more traffic and therefore hold a higher position than any of the others. You need lots of other good quality inward links though so the maths is not rocket science.

[Accurate]

Send them the PSD's. It's like giving someone a car with the bonnet being locked down and not being able to change anything. I send PSD's with my work, they will return to you if they want something doing. If they don't return to you, there will be a reason.

[Web CEO]

I agree with PSDgator. That's the reason of different IPs.

PartDigitalf, it's not a secret, how many such website satelites does your client intend to do?

[Nancy123]

hello,

you share great knowledge about IP addresses of the websites with us ya i say that different IP of increasing the pagerank of the web sites.

[feha]

It is not sure that different IP will help your PageRank.
It is only a guess.(Maybe).

Some practical tests I made confirms that the different IP's did not matter.
This is my own conclusion based in practice.

[nezona]

I think keeping sites on the same host is fine. As long as your sites dont link to each other to gain link juice you will be fine.

Your client is probably thinking of C block ip addresses.

This is only thing I can think of which is IP relevant.


Kind Regards
Neil Maycock
Webformatique