Shared Hosting - Bad for SEO? (exp. Godaddy)
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There were a lot of questions and data on this a few years back and nothing terribly recent so i wanted to get the discussion going again and see if any new data has been published.
Is hosting your website on a shared host like Godaddy or Network Solutions going to hurt your rankings because their holds a chance that you could be on the same IP as spammy websites?
My gut feeling is no primarily because almost 90% of the worldwide web is on shared hosting but i do not have a lot of data to back it up. Id love to hear some feedback.
Cheers - Kyle
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one thing to keep in mind is server down time and server speed. A lot of websites can be affected by having a slow host or the website being deindexed for significant downtime. I have a client right now that is on network solutions and had his site deindexed because it was down for 5 days because of a unix environment issue. The website is still taking 8-12 seconds to load and is killing his traffic. We are in the process of moving it now ;).
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Great share, not sure how i didn't stumble over this in my research
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Here's Cutt's answer to that: Matt Cutts on Shared Hosting
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Most websites are on shared hosting and Google knows that. (My guess is that at least 95% of websites are on shared hosting.)
So, I don't think that Google is going to discriminate against sites on shared hosting.
I think that the greater danger of shared hosting is the hosting company cramming too many websites on a server and damaging the performance. And, some hosts promise "unlimited bandwidth" and then throttle your success in other ways.
Most of my sites are on shared hosting. If you have a good host I would not worry about it.
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