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calebtheredwood
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Posted: 2008-Oct-01 02:51
Hello, thank you for reading my question. I am a newer(kind of newbie - a couple of years of exp) web site person.
I have a hosting account that offers multiple website hosting on one account. I can link domain names to a subdirectory. It essentially links a domain name to a folder in my root directory of my main account. That would create multiple websites on the same IP address.
Would this be something search engines frown upon? If I host multiple unique content sites using this system, would Google damn me with some type of penalty?
Thanks,
Caleb
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Prowler
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Posted: 2008-Oct-01 06:11
As long as each domain resolves and points to one unique directory and content pages - you have nothing to worry about. Search Engines will not penalize thousands of sites just because they all resolve to one IP address. Virtual servers mostly share the same IP for all the hundreds - even thousands of domains in the same box.
That does not mean that you can cross link all of them. Search Engines do read the IP address - not just the IP address alone, they read a lot more than that. They may spot that you own all the domains and that you interlink all the sites in an attempt to subvert their ranking process.
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mj1256
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Posted: 2008-Oct-01 13:30
that sounds like godaddy or 1and1, each of which offer other search engine indexing obstacles
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calebtheredwood
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Posted: 2008-Oct-01 17:39
Prowler, Thank you for the information. I do not plan on cross linking any of the sites/subdirectories together as they are totally different subject matters. I may have worded that wrong in my question when I said "link domains". I should have said assigned/pointed a domain to a subdirectory. Thank you.
mj1256, Thanks for the response. I am hosting at GoDaddy, could you elaborate on these "obstacles" or refer me to more information on this? Thank you.
Caleb
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mj1256
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Posted: 2008-Oct-01 23:01
My advice, move to another hosting company, that would solve the problems, the details of which would fill a book.
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calebtheredwood
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Posted: 2008-Oct-04 16:34
Quote: "could you elaborate on these 'obstacles' or refer me to more information on this?"
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mj1256
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Posted: 2008-Oct-04 19:24
if your using a static html site you will have just a few obstacles, mostly if you use htaccess files.
It is just too much to list and go into explaination over
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Prowler
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Posted: 2008-Oct-05 04:19
Some hosts create odd kind of setting up their servers. At the first glance, things may appear normal. But when you try to add some functionality through .htaccess ( a set of directives issued on a directory to directory basis to control the Apache server), things don't work as they should normally.
I have seen a client's ranking take a nose dive when their host changed the configuration file. Their robots.txt (they don't have one) instead of resulting in a 404 error, invoked a 302 to point to their host's login panel.
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mj1256
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Posted: 2008-Oct-06 14:58
exactly, some hosts (godaddy, 1and1) use proprietary setups that are non copmpliant with standard server protocols. The result is that they required proprietary syntax in fundamental server files such as htaccess and php.ini in order to get basic website functionality to work. Setups that would take minutes on a complaint server, can take hours and days of research and phone support contact (if even avaiable) to find out how to use the proprietary setup to get a site to run. Then...no sooner you get it figured out, the host changes it.
cheap does not mean good. cheap means your going to have to spend more money in the long run to get what you should have had in the first place, and usually, for just 5 or 10 dollars more per month.
you pay for what you get.
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calebtheredwood
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Posted: 2008-Oct-10 01:49
Thanks for the info guys! I've already been through some of these issues with my host and spent a lot of time searching forums to get the help.
Thanks again!
Caleb
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