I knew that the IP of the account was not a factor when Google decided if your domain is going to move up the SEO ranks. But according to this Article by the Google filter guy himself the Hostname is a factor. I am sure it’s not black and white but… A host with thousands of accounts on one server like hostgator, godaddy, and I have heard dreamhost mean if another website on your server is in on the front page of Google you are very much less likely to get on there after. Also because these hosts have unlimited domains people tend to think it’s good to create a bunch of websites and cross link them. This can actually flag your server and once again effect your ability to rank high in Google. Here is the excerpt from Google. “Seven of the top 10 results all came from one domain, and the urls look a little… well, let’s say fishy. In 1999 and early 2000, search engines would often return 50 results from the same domain in the search results. One nice change that Google introduced in February 2000 was “host crowding,” which only showed two results from each […]