Know Your Neighbor.
If you are on shared hosting plan, chances are you may have a bad neighbor. What do I mean?
Aside from your site hosted on a single IP address, there might some squeeze page of some affiliate programs or worst adult websites residing on the very server your site may have. Is this a problem? It may or may not?
SEO Concern.
Search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.) increase a web site's rank based on the number of links pointing towards the web site. Anybody can buy a lot of domain name, host it on a same server and interlink it. Nowadays, search engines frowned on this technique. You can read this guide in order to avoid some penalty, if ever your site has so many neighbors or you are attempting to interlink all your websites.
The tool.
If you want to know who are your neighbors. Just check this tool. On the form field, enter your domain name without the http://www. and it will highlight some websites in red. These sites might have adult contents.
What it does?
This A reverse IP domain check takes a domain name or IP address pointing to a web server and searches for other sites known to be hosted on that same web server. Data is gathered from search engine results, which are not guaranteed to be complete. Knowing the other web sites hosted on a web server is important from both an SEO and web filtering perspective, particularly for those on shared web hosting plans.
If you get some bucks out there, you can purchase dedicated IP's for your site. Or you can host it on a dedicated server, it means fewer neighbors. Who knows it may of great help to your SEO campaign.
Source: http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server/
Price: Free
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thanks for this post. nice to know about this thing.
keep on blogging! cheers!
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