SEO and IP Addressing

[airwav]

I just had an interesting question brought up by one of my Internet customers. This customer gets broadband from us and he does internal hosting with several domains. Apparently alot of the domains have dup content.
In our network we use the VLAN technique, i.e., referring internal IPs to one or two public that are managed by our router at our NOC.
Our customer seems to think that because all of these domains are now going to be represented by the same two static IPs that this will hurt his Google SEO.

Personally I cannot see how this would cause any problems, because SEO is not based on IP.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[Damion]

If the domains have dup content then that is where the problem is.
If he holds unique content he shouldn't have nothing to worry about.

In terms of SEO IP addresses can ad some benefit if you're targeting a geographic location, example: Manchester Flowers would be best to be hosted from a U.K. IP address.

And interlinking sites of the same hosting account will only have a negative effect if you have a LOT of domains interlinking with each other.

But in case of your customer, he holds dup content on his domains so the problem originates with his set up and content creation.

IP has an impact on SEO but as explained above in certain circumstances.

It doesn't matter if the domains are scattered over different IP's - dup content is dup content even on variating IP addresses.