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If I have 10 ip's on one server and one website per IP. Each design is unique and all run off the same DB plus none of the sites are linked together, would the major search engines penalize this type of set up?

All the sites are basically the same theme, genre etc but all content is unique.

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Quick, practical addendum for that builds on the thread: search engines look for patterns of duplication and manipulation more than the physical IP layout. and were right to focus on quality; 's caution about one site's bad practices carrying over is valid in the sense that shared signals make detection and remediation harder.

  • Use separate monitoring per domain: add each site to its own Google Search Console property and use distinct Analytics properties. That keeps alerts and manual-action messages site-specific, which speeds troubleshooting.
  • Avoid identical boilerplate across sites (footers, author bios, product descriptions). Reused template text is an easy clustering signal; when reuse is unavoidable, canonicalize or limit indexing of the duplicate fragments.
  • Canonicalize and redirect properly: for any pages that intentionally mirror content, use rel="canonical" or 301 redirects to point crawlers to the authoritative URL.
  • Keep link-building independent: do not repeatedly cross-link all sites with the same anchor text or use the group to manufacture PageRank. Treat each domain as an independent asset in outreach.
  • Operational hygiene: maintain per-site robots.txt and sitemap.xml, monitor Search Console for manual actions/security issues, and audit server headers and structured data so they reflect the correct site identity.

These steps reduce risk more effectively than worrying about IP counts. If the sites remain very similar over time, consolidating with 301s is often the cleanest long-term solution.

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Member Avatar for johny_d

As long as the content is unique and comes up naturally (not 1000 pages over-night), than you'll be ok, no matter how many sites you have on one server.

Member Avatar for stymiee

You will be perfectly fine. I wouldn't even give this a second thought. :)

Member Avatar for Dani

Your set-up is perfectly fine, but if you use *very* bad SEO practices (ie the kind that will get you banned from Google) with one of the sites, I believe it can carry over to the other sites.

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