Seo Hosting Reviews


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Howdy folks. I’m back again after a good 5 month hiatus. I’ve moved to Thailand to pursue a combat sport (serious hobby of mine) full time, so I’ve been pretty lax in terms of updating this site or writing reviews or doing anything but my training.

I’ve been meaning to get around to writing some good SEO Hosting reviews (I’ve gotten many requests of that nature that past year). I’m  going to sign up and try out a bunch of the tops ones and give you the lowdown. I’ve gone ahead and compiled a list of the various SEO hosting services out there and provided a few tentative recommendations. I can’t give anything a firm recommend until I actually test the service out myself, something which I will be doing shortly.

If you want to know what SEO Hosting is or the benefits, I recommend you read my huge article The Benefits of SEO Hosting. You might also want to have a read on how to create a link network that won’t get deindexed, my other article on creating a blog farm, and maybe even have a gander at the power of aged domains.

One thing that you do have to keep in mind with SEO Hosting is you MUST have the following:

  1. Unique C class IP’s (even better if they are spread out across the world — unique A class IP blocks)
  2. Private DNS Name servers associated with each C class IP (Many of the so called seo host companies do NOT offer this)
  3. Unique rDNS for each C Class (hard to explain, but it’s basically the IP that’s returned when you “ping” a domain name. Say you have 30 unique C class IP’s, if you were to ping each IP and the host did not offer unique rDNS for each C Class IP, the SAME IP address would be returned for all 30 when each is pinged. This may kill the SEO benefit).

Now before you actually look at getting SEO hosting, there are a few things to consider:

  • Firstly, if the price is too cheap (like 1 buck per IP), you are probably not getting the full SEO package.
  • Secondly, is your hosting shared or dedicated. If you are paying less than 3 bucks per IP, you are probably getting shared hosting space. That means that OTHER people will be on the same hosting servers as you, using the same IP’s. This is similar to any shared hosting (such as hostgator’s hosting). Just be aware you may be sharing your server space with evil spammers or greyhat SEO’s! More expensive multiple c class hosting options might give you dedicated hosting — you won’t be sharing those IP’s and hosting space with any others. Typically though, you are probably going to pay anywhere from 4 to 7 dollars per dedicated c class hosting though.
  • Thirdly, take a good look at the website. If the hosting company looks like some kid designed the website as part of a grade 9 class project, the people running the hosting service might be some guy living in his mom’s basement and the tech support non existant (as with any sort of refund).
  • Keep in mind that SEO hosting is only useful if you have a lot of sites and want to link them up. If you have a handful of sites, forget about it. If you have a couple big authority sites, forget about it. If you have a lot of little sites and want to interlink them (or keep them safe from a sitewide deindex) for max SEO effort, then SEO hosting is recommended. Just keep in mind that you don’t want to pony out the money for seo hosting while keeping the same ADSENSE ID or/and ANALYTIC ID and/or same sites added to Google Web Master Tools as you will pretty much render all your efforts pointless!

I’ve put together a list of the available seo hosting services. There are only 2 that offer unique C class IP’s, unique name servers, and unique rDNS’s. As for the others, I need to actually email the customer support and find out. If I don’t know, look for the ?

  • Seo-host.com (unique C class IP’s, unique name servers, unique rDNS) SHARED 25 IP’s for $74.95 a month — My review: TERRIBLE service, and TERRIBLE support, lies about refund!
  • Seohost.com (unique C class IP’s, unique name servers, unique rDNS) SHARED 25 IP’s for $49 per month / DEDICATED 25 IP\s for $100 per month — On paper, recommend as the best of the bunch. However have not tried it yet. Will be testing it out myself
  • seohosting.com (unique C class IP’s, unique name servers, ?) 25 IP’s $150 per month — This is hostgator’s SEO hosting service. Expensive, but support will be guaranteed to be great, being owned by hostgator and all. However, I am not sure if they offer unique rDNS, though I suspect not. Need to confirm.
  • aseohosting.com (unique C class IP’s, unique name servers, ?) 25 IP’s for 118 a month
  • hostseo.org (unique C class IP’s, unique name servers, ?) — I like the look and price of of this service, will need to find out if unique rDNS is offered though
  • seowebhosting.com (unique C class IP’s, ?, ?) 25 IP’s $149 per month
  • multipleiphosting.com (unique C class IP’s, unique name servers, ?) 20 IP’s $98 per month
  • cclassiphosting.com (unique C class IP’s, ?,?) 25 IP’s for $25 per month — Price is suspiciously cheap, I suspect NO unique name servers and NO unique rDNS
  • ideastack.com/seo-hosting.html (unique C class IP’s, ?, ?) 25 IP’s for $25 per month – Price is suspiciously cheap, I suspect NO unique name servers and NO unique rDNS
  • seohostingonline.com/ (unique C class IP’s, unique name servers, ?) 25 IP’s for $124.75 per month
  • seohostingdirect.com (unique C class IP’s, ?, ?) 25 IP’s for $25 per month — Price is suspiciously cheap, I suspect NO unique name servers and NO unique rDNS

Again, be aware if you the price is like stupid cheap, you may not be getting what you think you are getting in terms of true SEO services and technical support. I’ve seem some companies offers “seo hosting” for as cheap as 1 dollar per C class IP (100 domains for 100 bucks a month). However, when you zoom in on the details, these services don’t offer private nameservers or unique rDNS. For real seo hosting, expect to pay about 100 bucks per 20-30 C class IP’s. And don’t forget about the importance of tech support and service reliability. You don’t want your network of sites to be down for days because there are no employees around to fix the hosting service.

My experience with Seo-host.com was exactly that. They imported a bunch of wordpress sites over onto their servers and half the imported blogs did NOT work. Over the whole month, I had problems with blogs going down or simply not working (from the original import), then when I said fuck it and asked for a month’s refund within the 30 days (as per their guarantee), they would not give a refund. I had to take it up with their payment processor and threaten a paypal dispute to get a refund (and this was not done via seo-host.com but forced on them by their payment processor). This is why I advise you NOT to move any serious money-making sites onto SEO hosting — save it for the crappy support sites and keep your top level websites on reliable hosting like hostgator.

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2 Comments for Seo Hosting Reviews

Dead Pixel

Hi Spider,
I have just been investegating this same query. I spoke to aseohosting.com on chat and they do not provide rDNS and they claim that it is not important at all. I told them to look at your blog. I also spoke to seohosting.com and they indirectly told me that they provide rDNS by giving me a link to this page on their website, which i think claims to provide it. Can you check it out and confirm because i havn’t a clue what they are talking about? here’s the link

There is one more thing you didnt mention in your article and it is somthing I am quite concerned about. Geo-locations. How important are they? If I set up a big link network and all my sites are at the same Geo-location, will that trigger Google’s Alarm bells? It certainly won’t look natural If the majority of links pointing at my clients UK based website come from the same Geo-location. Please share your wisdom.

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    rDNS is important (and it’s the least understood part that people don’t understand). IF you don’t have unique RDNS domains mapped to each C class IP, what happens is you (or google) can simply check the rDNS records for those C class domains (via ping) and if the same domain is returned for the different C classes pinged, they all share the same server… Does google do this? I’m not sure, but it’s pretty easy to do and I can’t see why they wouldn’t include this as part of their ranking algorithms when looking a the backlinkings point to a website. A simple check of the rDNS of those backlinks then sort all those backlinks that share the same rDNS and those backlinks would basically be from the same serverspace. Does that mean they are owned by the same person? Not necessarly, but it’s pretty big indication. You’ll almost never have a huge portion of your backlinks coming from the same server with natural links…

    SeoHosting companies don’t usually like to offer rDNS because it costs them a lot more money. You basically need a unique IP/domain to map out to each unique C Class. This means the company has to pay for more unique IP’s just to offer this. One thing I suspect (I can’t verify this, so it’s my opinion) is that some companies may assign blocks of C class IP’s to share an rDSN to cut down the cost. So say 10 C Class IP’s may share one unique rDNS, then another 10 C Class IP’s may share another rDNS, etc. This might function as a compromise — you do get some unique rDNS’s in the mix, but you are basically screwed if you end up using 10 C class ips to link to a single site and those ip’s happen to share the same rDNS.

    what hostgator is talking about is an rDNS. But they are using that in the context of an email server which makes sense (you send an email off, and the email server looks at the rdns record for the server the email domain comes from to verify it’s actually from the that domain).

    I’m not clear if they directly support rDNS for their seo hosting though. I suppose one way would be to get seo hosting then do a PING two different C class IP’s on your seo hosting. If the same domain is returned from the two different pings, then you don’t have unique rDNS.

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