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What's your take on "addon domains?" Does Google penalize someone for having one or more addon domains on their main website, (or if they're self-hosting)? e.g. If you saw 2, 5, or 10 websites all coming from the same IP address, would that be bad?

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  • I think the question is more about sites running from the same IP. Matt didn't really address this directly because I don't think the question was phrased well, an Addon domain (as referenced to by cPanel, I assume what the questioner was asking about) is a domain that functions in a subdirectory of the users hosting account, it runs from the same IP.

    As far as I know google does not penalize multiple sites from the same IP, so anyone using addon domains for different sites should be okay.

  • Matt, you really missed the point of the question. He wasn't asking about domain ALIASES, he was asking about multiple domains on the same IP address (ie, shared hosting).

    The short answer is, NO, Google doesn't care if you have multiple sites that share the same IP address. While other considerations apply, the most significant issues you need to be concerned about is the quality or type of other sites sharing your IP and/or server, as this can cause your site either downtime or other issue

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  • mate, he was asking about SHARED HOSTING add-on domains u PLONKER!

  • I have learned many things from this. Great.

  • So if you have TOTALLY different sites it's best to buy DIFFERENT independent hosting for each?

  • @CitricSquid Same ip means nothing many hosts run thousands of sites from one ip .. IP's are irrelevant apart from location determination .

  • Matt doesn't know what a add-on domain is! Wow... FAIL DUDE!

  • What about this one:

    I have +20 related domains, I started developing few days ago.

    Very the same niche.

    But they have completely different and quality content, different template,.

    The duplicate is in title, meta description of the sites.

    Will they get penalty ?

  • @vxcriss That's correct. It's ok to have a few websites on the same IP range, but if you have 100 sites on the same IP range it's going to be a negative for SEO.

  • WOW Matt registered Matt-Cutts(com) :/ I wanted that domain :(

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