heimdall asked 3 years agoI am hoping that this is just a temporary blip and that the site will bounce back but in the meantime I am getting next to no traffic on a site which Google really liked 1 week ago but now because of a new ip address apparently really hates!!
I guess my question is whether anybody else has ever seen this with Google and I also hope that someone can tell me that it will all be ok again please. :eh:
heimdall answered 3 years ago
I really don’t know what else to try, I’ve checked my site for any other penalties, and also checked with webmaster tools, and can’t see anything but I’d appreciate if someone else could maybe take a look at http://www.high-rollercasinos.com and tell me if they see something which could be angering Google, maybe some change which I need to do to suit their algorithm. I have not changed anything since the time, 3 weeks ago, when I was top ranked for the term “high-roller online casinos”. Is there anything else I could try or is it still a case of just waiting and praying that all my hard work hasn’t been for nothing.
BTW I have also checked on Copyscape for duplicate content and can’t find anything.
heimdall answered 3 years ago
GamblersHeaven answered 3 years ago
217.112.82.16/~highroll
and another site might be
217.112.82.16/~casinorus
They would have exactly the same underlying ip address just that http://www.high-rollercasinos.com would resolve to 217.112.82.16/~highroll and the other website would resolve to 217.112.82.16/~casinorus. This is why it’s so dangerous.
The way to test this is to simply type in 217.112.82.16, which is still my underlying webserver ip address, with my dedicated ip address pointing at it, and see whether or not you can reach my site.
It could well be that different hosting solutions are different from mine but I don’t really see why they would be.
This is correct because I am a reseller for a hosting company and usually put around 100 sites under 1 IP unless someone wants a unique IP. When I signed up with the company, the original IP they gave me had over 1000 websites under 1 IP.
For my personal sites I always make sure I have unique Class C IP’s because it does make a difference and doesn’t cost much.
heimdall answered 3 years ago
217.112.82.16/~highroll
and another site might be
217.112.82.16/~casinorus
They would have exactly the same underlying ip address just that http://www.high-rollercasinos.com would resolve to 217.112.82.16/~highroll and the other website would resolve to 217.112.82.16/~casinorus. This is why it’s so dangerous.
The way to test this is to simply type in 217.112.82.16, which is still my underlying webserver ip address, with my dedicated ip address pointing at it, and see whether or not you can reach my site.
It could well be that different hosting solutions are different from mine but I don’t really see why they would be.
GaryTheScubaGuy answered 3 years ago
2 sites would not both have the same IP’s. The first 2 series might be the same, and I guess in extreme cases 3, but not ever exactly the same.
This couldn’t happen;
your site 201.0.0.33
their site 201.0.0.33
It would be like this;
your site 201.0.45.133
their site 201.0.78.432
heimdall answered 3 years ago
I totally agree that dedicated hosting is the absolute best solution but as you say you have to pay quite a lot of money to get something good and fast.
GaryTheScubaGuy answered 3 years ago
Yes that is correct and I have always said exactly that for the past 5 years, that the cost is worth the piece of mind…but the last time that I checked around for a decent dedicated server it was £79 versus practically free on a shared. Which isn’t a bunch, but 1k per year to a mom-and-pop style site is a lot.
What the issue used to be is if your IP is in the same ‘range’ as that of a bad neighbour that their could be implications. So if your IP was 201.0.12.134 and a spammer was on 201.1.45.032 that you may get ‘pooled’ in with him.
This is not the case any more.
For me? I’ll always go dedicated.
heimdall answered 3 years ago
GaryTheScubaGuy answered 3 years ago
I hope you don’t take any of my comments the wrong way if I disagree with any of them. I’m really not meaning to be argumentative, just state the facts when and IF I know them.
Anyhow, dynamic IP’s are handled no differently than dedicated (unlike in the past) servers with one exception; If the server is overloaded and therefore slows your site down, potentially enough to serve a load error, then this may affect your rankings.
Bad neighbourhoods refer to this statement by Matt Cutts, ” If your sister companies are just linked at the footer of the page, in hopes of cross-advertising or getting more links, it’s not likely to add value to ranking or the user. In extreme cases, if it’s a bad neighbourhood, these links will certainly not help you.”
Its been a widely used piece of advice in the past when spammers or blackhat style sites (malware) were being targeted, but since then Google has figured out how to identify and filter these. But these days you are safe on dynamic and shared servers.
GaryTheScubaGuy
heimdall answered 3 years ago
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