Cormac
New Member
Hi guys, just looking for the opinions of fellow users on SEO and the importance of which host and which platform you use.
Most of us are aware that Apache has excellent SEO'ability when powered by mod-rewrite() rules and of course through .htaccess powered canonical urls and all that. Also hosting your site in the same country as your target audience aids your regional search term indexing.
So a few questions...
1) How many sites can be hosted on a shared hosting plan or single IP before/if Google penalises you for duplicate content?
2) If you receive backlinks from a site which is hosted on the same IP/Server does it lessen the weight of the backlink? I understand that receiving a backlink from an IP outside of the same class C address is better?
3) Are some hosts penalised in regards to SERPS if they host dodgy content? And likewise are some hosts ranked better?
Thanks guys.
Most of us are aware that Apache has excellent SEO'ability when powered by mod-rewrite() rules and of course through .htaccess powered canonical urls and all that. Also hosting your site in the same country as your target audience aids your regional search term indexing.
So a few questions...
1) How many sites can be hosted on a shared hosting plan or single IP before/if Google penalises you for duplicate content?
2) If you receive backlinks from a site which is hosted on the same IP/Server does it lessen the weight of the backlink? I understand that receiving a backlink from an IP outside of the same class C address is better?
3) Are some hosts penalised in regards to SERPS if they host dodgy content? And likewise are some hosts ranked better?
Thanks guys.