Comments on: Dedicated IP Address Not Required for Search Engine Optimization

By: lezned

lezned — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:49:49 +0000

It’s nice to see someone talk sense with SEO, dedicated IP addresses are useless.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:54:30 +0000

We have done an fabulous job converting all our sites to use dedicated IP’s but the time spent on the conversion has not produced positive ROI.

By: Amish

Amish — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 05:33:45 +0000

I have tested the case of a dedicated IP address and it made a difference if we were running networks of blog sites.

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Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:17:17 +0000

[...] Dedicated IP Address Not Required for Search Engine Optimization December 15, 2007 on 6:17 am | In Web Hosting | One of the latent myths of SEO is the need for a dedicated IP address. This search engine optimization falsehood was started in the late 1990’s and spread by many highly visible SEO’s including Bruce Clay’s inaccurate information. There is absolutely no need to get a dedicated IP address or a dedicated server for web hosting. You would share a C block IP with your neighbors in a datacenter, and you have absolutely no control of virtual neighbors. If search engines penalized or promoted website Read more here. [...]

By: CVOS

CVOS — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:08:49 +0000

Smackdown from an anonymous commenter! I love debate and am happy to debate you, fans of Bruce Clay are always welcome.

Ill dissect your comments: Yes Matt Cutts often gives vague answers, but this post was short and sweet “I’m happy to affirm that this statement which was true in 2003 is still true now. Links to virtually hosted domains are treated the same as links to domains on dedicated IP addresses.”

How can this be more clear?

Here is one example I found in 30 seconds: blogmaverick.com. It ranks pretty good, is currently #5 in Google for the keyword “blog” and shares a server with 164 other domains.

Don’t worry, I always provide real world examples and quote industry authorities when I make a statement.

Your statement “Bruce has been doing this for longer than you (obviously) have.” Shoot, you may be correct, according to the copyright dates bruceclay.com was started in 1996 and I started my company in 1998. Also interesting to note that Yahoo started around 1996 and Google started around 1998.

Eagerly awaiting your response.

P.S. I left a comment here but it was not published. Maybe I won’t get the professional debate I hoped for after all