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baddog · 09-19-2007, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by chilihost

google has publicly stated in the past that having your own dedicated IP does not add to the value / seo positioning of your domain. What really matters is good relevant content and relevant inbound links from other sites with good relevant content.

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About 3% of all web sites "own" a private IP number, with the remainder being on virtual, or name-based, servers. Although only 3% are dedicated IP's, we have seen that in many instances well over 90% of the top-50 results in the search engines are sites having dedicated IP numbers. This was so strange that we have repeatedly validated these findings, and have found that switching a site from a virtual IP to a dedicated IP number alone has caused significant ranking increases. Of course, the web is so dynamic that this could be coincidence, but we do not think so.

Google has also said they have a host-crowding penalty.