What's your take on "addon domains"?

What's your take on "addon domains"?

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Added on Tuesday 15 June 2010 12:58:06
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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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baba14k

mate, he was asking about SHARED HOSTING add-on domains u PLONKER!
Monday 26 December 2011 10:10:07
agapitoflores001

I have learned many things from this. Great.
Saturday 12 November 2011 21:28:21
mr24bd

This is? not very effective. Page Rank is calculated mainly by the homepage. Besides Google knows the difference between a profile page and the homepage.
Sunday 30 October 2011 22:05:54
mr24bd

Try to add some Description for Photos not for SEO purpose but for people. That will help you. You can also share in Flickr that may help you rank well.
Sunday 30 October 2011 03:44:48
TheChewyTunes

So if you have TOTALLY different sites it's best to buy DIFFERENT independent hosting for each?
Saturday 29 January 2011 10:16:39
TdRaidX

@CitricSquid Same ip means nothing many hosts run thousands of sites from one ip .. IP's are irrelevant apart from location determination .
Sunday 12 December 2010 17:22:51
antwakefield

Matt doesn't know what a add-on domain is! Wow... FAIL DUDE!
Monday 18 October 2010 01:50:28
undeterminederror

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 ?
Sunday 04 July 2010 13:16:52
infiltrator7777

@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.
Monday 28 June 2010 12:15:42
TechieGeek1

WOW Matt registered Matt-Cutts(com) :/ I wanted that domain :(
Sunday 20 June 2010 14:34:52
CitricSquid

@nnnick03 As long as your sites are not interlinking then you should be fine. Google will only penalize you if you try and boost your link backs between sites all from the same IP.
Sunday 20 June 2010 12:17:50
nnnick03

@CitricSquid that was my question too. I have 5 or so sites on the same hosting account as add-on domains, so 4 of them are under the subdirectory of the first website I registered with the hosting company. The sites have nothing to do with each other, different names, etc. My question is - would those other 4 sites be better off on a seperate hosting account? Obviously a dedicated IP is best, but I can't afford that for each blog/site I manage.
Sunday 20 June 2010 12:14:40
sayweb

very good.
Sunday 20 June 2010 02:40:16
ShawnKHall

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
Wednesday 16 June 2010 23:58:58
schank111222

Matt you say things in circles. I've noticed this for quite a lot of your videos. You repeat the same things over and over. I never find myself watching the entire video because halfway through I've heard everything you have to say. You might want to work on that.
Wednesday 16 June 2010 17:43:36
Conceptskatemedia

I was looking forward to this question. You dodged the question Matt :(
Wednesday 16 June 2010 15:51:49
vxcriss

FU Matt, you dodged the REAL question!!! The guy asked you if Google cares or not if multiple websites come from the same IP address. And the answer I think to be true is YES, it matters, but only to some extent. I'm sure it's fine to have multiple different sites on the same IP, while I'm sure that they will penalize having many similar sites on the same IP.
Wednesday 16 June 2010 02:43:14
AsHDaMaster

@Shadow14l that's it, no one could give a better answer! :)
Wednesday 16 June 2010 02:42:10
McSnookerman

I didn't get the last part. If someone registers a domain name with "google" in it, how can Google do anything about it?
Wednesday 16 June 2010 02:34:00
McSnookerman

enough with the blurry backgrounds! just use the google logo
Wednesday 16 June 2010 02:29:07
thejungleseo

Thanks Matt! we had a recent post on this in our blog insisting the same
Wednesday 16 June 2010 01:42:25
wyciskTV

This is some really insightful stuff. Thanks Matt.
Tuesday 15 June 2010 23:59:17
patellaman

Some great information there! thanks so much!!! :)
Tuesday 15 June 2010 22:37:49
PlutoTourist

I have a number of sites, all unrelated, spread across 2 servers and 2 IPs. I was going to purchase a large block of IPs to assign a different domain, maybe to or three, to each IP. So if I understan Matt correctly, the fact the sites are all different, each with unique layout and content, I don't have to do so? Or am I misunderstanding what he is explaining?
Tuesday 15 June 2010 19:03:31