C Class Hosting For SEO

A common SEO strategy is to build up multiple websites and then create links between these sites. If the links are between related sites, Google will discount these links especially if they share the same IP address.

Most SEO experts believe that Google will greatly discount the value of links between sites that are related. One way that Google uncovers relationships is by looking at the IP addresses. It is not enough to have different IP addresses. They need to have different “C Class” IPs.

C Class IPs refers to the third octet of the IP address. The IP address of this blog is 66.162.134.244. Therefore the C class would be 134. Usually companies with multiple sites typically will have them hosted all on the same C class IP.

In C Class hosting, each of the numbers in the third octet of the IP address would be different. 

Example:

66.162.134.244
66.162.135.244
66.162.136.244
66.162.137.244

All have a different C class.

To get different C class hosting, you can host different websites with different hosting companies. This can get to be a logistical nightmare keeping these straight if you have very many websites.

Another option is to use a hosting company that allows placing websites on different C Class IPs. One such company is SEO Hosting which is operated by HostGator.com. They use cpanel hosting and allow the webmaster to assign the IP addresses as they are setting up the account.