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There’s much controversy about usage of dedicated and shared IPs in SEO. During forum debates I have seen a lot of opinions concerning this question, so I’d like to give you some excerpts of discussion to think about:

- Google dislikes shared IPs; one should park domains on dedicated IPs.
- Google don’t care if you have shared or dedicated IP for each domain
- You need do have IPs from different networks to make safe linking between such domains
- If you have your domain on shared IP and there is a cheater or spammer having his domain on the same IP, you can get banned along with this cheating site
- If such cheating site will be banned, you won’t be banned too, but lowered in SERPs
- You will experience no changes, when site from same IP will be banned

You can see that there are much opinions and guessing about this problem I have concluded that:

If you have a couple of domains with sites, that are sometimes similar in code, names of images and affiliate links - you must avoid putting these sites on domains parked on same IP, or IPs from same network. In case if sites are completely unlike and you don’t link between them - it is not necessary to host them on different IPs.

IPs from the same network means that IPs vary in last digit(s): for instance xxx.xxx.xxx.1 and xxx.xxx.xxx.2 - Google will definitely ban or penalize you for cross linking of sites hosted on domains parked on close IPs. IPs from various networks must vary in at least third group of digits.

How do you find out whether your domain is parked on dedicated or shared IP and what sites are hosted on this IP along with yours? Try http://whois.sc/IP adress

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