
Spreading a network across multiple hosts separates the IP address and the server, and Google has said neither one sets your rankings. Most of the other things that connect your sites, from the registrar record to the analytics ID, move with you to every host. What multiple hosts really adds is admin: a login, a renewal and a PHP schedule per site. For three sites that is a fair trade. Past that, we think one SEO host with separate addresses and nameservers per site is the better one, and the calculator below lets you test that against your own numbers.

A bad neighborhood IP is mostly not a ranking problem: Google’s spam policies describe links and behavior, not addresses. What an address’s history really costs you is rejected mail, challenged traffic and a cleanup you run yourself. We scanned the 512 addresses around our own site against two blocklists to show what a real neighborhood looks like, and how to check yours in five minutes.
“Focus on the user and all else will follow.” That’s one of the first lines in Google’s guiding philosophy, titled Ten things we know to be true. The company has, since its inception, focused on providing its audience with the best user experience possible – a fact which is reflected in all its products, from…
When people talk about how powerful a marketing tool social media can be, they’re usually referring to websites like Facebook or Twitter. They often overlook another platform that’s every bit as formidable, perhaps more-so – YouTube. As the most popular user-driven video platform on the Internet, it brings in around 2 billion unique monthly visitors,…
As one of the web’s most popular multimedia platforms, YouTube reaches more American consumers in an average week than every cable network combined. It draws in around 2 billion unique users each month, who together watch more than two hundred and fifty million hours of video a day.