SEO, Host IPs and Web Hosting Servers
SEO and Page Rank Services require a web host to walk a thin line between using techniques to attract search engines, and activities that those search engines might consider exploitative. Google may use the various classes within a site’s IP address to discover relationships between Web sites in an effort to spot spammers, and will often diminish links that are among Web sites in that particular range. For SEO Web Hosting – Linux/Windows, Multiple IP Hosting, Multiple DNS Hosting, and Unlimited DNS Hosting visit Solution Point, India (www.indiahosting.org).
IPs falling within the same class C range are likely to be close, and sometimes on the same server. Google penalizes sites with the same C class for linking to each other. For Web hosts and website owners, this can be a frustrating issue, since certain sites have similar themed content and may wish to host their Web sites in one location. Search engine optimization is not ONLY about title tags and keyword frequency anymore. One major factor is your web host! Good SEO Hosting should provide following minimum features:
Prefer Linux Apache MySQL PHP Web Server against Windows: For a number of reasons (free software, use of htaccess and mod-rewrite engines, easy community support, etc). Though Windows Hosting is not bad either.
Fetch Unique IP Addresses: It is a good idea to secure your own dedicated IP address. Few shared hosting companies do not allow you to do this, so make sure before signing up. The last thing you want is lot of porn, gambling, and banned adsense sites sharing IPs with you. Avoid Bad Neighborhoods. Get your own IP and stop worrying about your neighbors.
Choose a Annual Hosting Plan: Buy hosting from companies that require 1 year in advance! Simply, black buys phishers, and spammers are not interested in purchasing a years worth of hosting for a domain they expect to last only a few weeks. Find a hosting company that requires at least 1 year commitment. Only buy from a hosting company that require a contract, like Solution Point, India, Net4India, Rediff, etc.
Verify Your Hosting Firm: We recommend the old fashioned man-to-man phone call. A spammer creating hundreds of hosting accounts everyday is not going to be able to answer that many phone calls. And a phisher paying for hosting accounts with a stolen credit card will steer clear of these sites. It is worth the hassle.
Ask for Mod-Rewrite / htaccess: Google has yet to offer a truly effective system for preventing duplicate content caused by accessing a domain by www. and non-www. version of your site. (Google offers a method by creating a Google Webmaster Account and providing a preferred domain. But….). To clean up Google’s mess, it is essential that your web host provide basic HTACCESS and MOD_REWRITE so that you can do this…
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^www\.osspl\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.osspl.com/$1 [R=301]
Replace the domain in the code with your domain. There are lots of other uses for mod rewrite which we do not have time to cover here. There is a windows alternative known as ISAPI Rewrite, but it is rarely available on shared windows hosts.
Analyse Server UpTime: While Google is doing a much better job recognizing small outages, losing your site for hours or even days can have more impact than just rankings. You can use webhostingstuff.com to find Up Time data for a number of major hosting companies’ web servers.








The best way to avoid any possible backlash due to web hosting and IP factor is to buy a dedicated IP while buying hosting services (e.g. refer http://www.indiahosting.org/hosting.php). Even if a virtual IP is OK for SEO, a serious business site should never mind spending just $2-3 a month for a dedicated IP. That can surely tell a lot (to me, to you, to Google or people like us) about the quality of a website, isn’t it?
As someone said on Matt Cutt’s (a Google Employee) blog that the endemic advice to hide the origins of your websites is, in my opinion, utter nonsense in that 1. it is not necessary, and 2. it will not work anyway.
This is the analogy he used to explain to the smart black hat SEO Practitioners and spammers:
“If you are going to the bank to cash a check, there is nothing wrong with driving your own car. If you are going to the bank to rob it, on the other hand, driving your own car is going to make it ridiculously easy for the police to find you. However, even if you steal a car before robbing the bank, the odds of you actually getting away with the crime are not exactly favorable. There are just too many ways to get caught and eliminating the most obvious, be it your car or IP addresses, is of minimal help.”
Simple answer? Do not rob the bank and the convenience of using your own car will never become an issue.