Virtual Hosting effect on SEO

if a website is hosted on a virtual host does it have any effect on the website from SEO Perspective?
either on the 1st website or on the other?

It has kind of, Google will penalise sites that use the same IP

Dan

p.s. The full extent is not known.

Why would it do that !!!!

If that was true most of the websites on the Internet would have been penalized...

IPv4 is becoming a rare commodity, Google cannot expect ppl to start taking dedicated IP for their website.....

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they only penalize domains that share the IP if they are trying to benefit from linking to one another. If you have two unrelated sites hosted on the same IP, you should not suffer any penalization.

@amit~ exactly, i have a dedicated server with many domains on! and i get penalised, it seems im penalised more then these blackhat spammers out there!

G will only penalise sites on the same IP that link together.

You lost me there....if they are unrelated and they swapped or brought links it seems that they have brought links which is against Gs rules.

I mean if both sites are unrelated i.e. a computer site and a chemist site that sales Viagra, why would they swap links? Who that reads an article for example on lets say the newest Windows Operating System just released why would they want to buy drugs to enhance their sex lifes?

The fact it is untargeted, and no one really wants to. The only reason why they are linked together is to pass on their PR.

Dan

I think this is a debate that will continue to go on and on.

I've read in other forums that their has not been any evidence of any site being hurt from linking to sites from same ip address only link farm related sites.

I'm not sure if sites are hurt if they trade links with sites with same IP but I try to split sites I own on different locations to try to combat that just in case. Yes it is usually cheaper to host multiple sites in one spot but to be on save site I divide them on 4-5 differnt locations.

I don't think a few number of links between sites sharing same ip is bad, but I would say there would be a number where may be a threashlevel.