Comments on: 7 Debatable Reasons Hosting Influences SEO

By: Santana Szufat

Santana Szufat — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:21:29 +0000

Between what you are offering me and what i can choose if i could i would certanly go with one offer from linuxhostinghub.com And their shared or virtual private servers.

By: Rank High Google

Rank High Google — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:25:40 +0000

WowI had yet to think about the obviously simple ways Google works. The truth of the issue is that Search Engines indexes your page countless times, it takes a metric tonne of work on your part in order to get your page to become intriguing to Google. I guess this adds to my understanding of search engines!

By: alexc

alexc — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:38:29 +0000

#1 – you definately don’t want to host on the same IP (or even subnet) with domains that were heavily backlink spammed. It’s a question of risk here – if your site is valuable enough for you then it is best to move elsewhere, ideally on its own dedicated IP but it’s best to check that IP to be sure no junk was hosted there.

There are tools out there that show other domains hosted on same IP, however they won’t normally show them in order of backlink counts which makes it hard to see spammy neighbours (especially on subnets), our free tool however does this just fine, feel free to check it out: http://www.majesticseo.com/research/neighbourhood-checker.php

We actually used this tool ourselves to move away from one shared hosting, it’s not clear if that affected rankings however it’s best to stay away from bad neighbourhoods to give less reasons for search engines to raise red flags.

By: Betamale

Betamale — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:14:31 +0000

Ouch I had an issue once where one of my sites was crawled while my host was down for a day and it sucked. Not only was the site down, but the double damage was done when googlbot came around to spider.

That probably set me back a few weeks.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:18:52 +0000

This is all rather trivial beyond the mod-rewrite stuff.
To say that being on a spammy IP is bad is also something that is debatable. If you are one site about cooking on an IP full of porn sites, that is bad. However if the percentage of adult content is low, its really not that bad. The biggest worry with a shared IP/server is the liability of attacks. If somone else’s site gets hacked or attacked you are put at risk as well. It may just be a slow site, but could also mean downtime=>lost business.
Windows vs Apache is a tough one as well. There are blog platforms on both and both can do all of the same things at the end of the day, but apply to different programming languages and licensing structures. Sites with loads of custom server needs aren’t easily moved from server to server anyhow so its really just a descision that needs made. It should also be noted that worldwide free support of apache is easier to find than that for windows. I think server location is also less important than its made out to be. As long as you are in the right country and in a good datacenter with good response times, you will be fine.

By: Hendry Lee

Hendry Lee — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:22:44 +0000

They’re indeed debatable. Here are my quick response to them:

1. I think at the same time Google is aware of this issue, so why would they blacklist an IP.

2. Geographic area matters less but the response time.

3. With dedicated server, when you have to buy license for Windows, Linux or BSD certain are more cost effective.

4. Do search engines really know the difference?

5, 6. A WordPress or other platform dependent solution is available, but certainly server solution is more robust.

7. It is just one factor but also make sure the network the hosting is connected to is reliable. Host can be on, but not reachable.