Hosting Sites under same IP / subdomain usage?
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Hello everyone!
The company I am working for is working on selling websites templates to clients in the near future. In terms of SEO purposes, would it be detrimental for our clients if we hosted all of these sites under the same server/IP?
Also, in the past we've sold sites under a domain we own, adding them on as a subdomain. For example, we would own yourflowers.com, and if Mark's Flowers wanted a site, we would give him: marksflowers.yourflowers.com
These sites are going to be the same niche as we are industry specific (example would be, we sell website templates specifically designed for flower shops around the United States).
I want the best possible SEO experience for our clients and I believe using subdomains and hosting under the same server IP can be detrimental, but I wanted to see what the Moz community thinks of this.
Any feedback is appreciated!
Thanks
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Hi Paul,
The difference would be made how you plan to use these domains, if they are going to inter-link to each other, they may be seen as Link-wheel strategy (black hat strategy). If they are competing for same industry space (as in keywords) or working to benefit the same company together, then again that may be a problem.
As for the same IP, there are several websites hosted on same server IP at a time.
I hope this helps, please respond if you have further questions.
Regards,
Vijay
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In my experiencie it doesnt make any difference
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I should have clarified, but it won't be just several sites, but could be in the hundreds since we have thousands of clients. Would that make a difference?
Thanks
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Hi Paul,
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No, there is no detrimental in SEO purposes in hoting several sites in the same server/IP.
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Subdomains are treated as separate sites from the main domain. So there will be no harm in that.
Best Luck.
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