Search Engine Friendly Hosting
For its online marketing clients, Attention Interactive offers SEO friendly hosting. If you have never heard of that phrase or service before, that's OK. In this article we will teach you what search engine-friendly hosting is, how it works and why is it important.For some time, it has been known in the online marketing industry that Google's algorithm assigns lower values to similar results which come from the same web host. In fact, some research shows that Google will return only the top 2 values, even though you have optimized all of your web sites and you think that you should possibly have the top 5 spots. This is because Google has recognized that you are hosting all of these web sites on the same shared hosting server, most likely sharing the IP address, C records and other data with 1000s of other users – under that shared hosting server account. So, all of these ultra-cheap hosting accounts that sell way more hard drive space and bandwidth that you really need – are hurting you where it hurts the most – in your ability to be found on the internet. This type of penalty is referred as a "host crowding penalty."
Online forums are full of suggestions that offer ways to work around this. One such solution is to simply disable the filter, but many users are not technically savvy enough to do that. Another solution is to host your web sites with multiple hosts – but then you have multiple control panels, multiple ways to do things and yet still, you are sharing servers with other companies that may be your direct competitors and which may appear on search engine results above your web sites. The chances of obtaining a list from a hosting company of all of the web sites that are hosted on the particular shared hosting server assigned to you are slim.
If you want to have a better chance of appearing on the top of search engines and growing your business, you need to consider a search engine-friendly host. You should know ahead of time which sites are hosted on your particular server and which resources you are sharing, if any. If you choose Attention Interactive hosting, not only do you get the highest quality of hosting support available today (we are a Rackspace Solution provider and if you don't know who Rackspace is – Google it and research it, please), but you are also getting SEO-friendly hosting, which includes IP ranges spread out over multiple Class A or C subnets, giving search engines the impression that your sites reside on different servers. This is very important when you have web sites that promote similar products, or when you want to build your own network of interconnected web sites (which is another reason why Google could impose its penalty). And last, you get the added convenience of maintenance (as our hosting packages are bundled with maintenance agreements) and one control panel where you can manage all of your web sites, as well as e-mail servers.
Many companies advertise search engine-friendly hosting with multiple class C's, but they share IP addresses with multiple customers. The reason why they share IPs is so that they can make more money – since they host unlimited web sites under the same IP address, set-up is faster and easier, which results in less calls to their call center. Sharing IPs can be very dangerous for the web site owner. If one user has its IP address banned, all users on that server are in trouble; they instantly lose their search engine ranking and credibility for which they often paid a lot of money. We have noticed some hosting companies host up to 10,000 web sites per server which is an incredible number of web sites per one server if you think about the fact that all of them are served on the internet through only one IP address.
