: Dedicated IP addresses have no effect on SEO as IP addresses in no way indicate anything about the content and whether or not it is relevant for a search query. A site on a shared IP that

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Dedicated IP addresses have no effect on SEO as IP addresses in no way indicate anything about the content and whether or not it is relevant for a search query. A site on a shared IP that moves to a dedicated IP, or vice versa, is no better or worse because of that IP address. So the IP address won't affect the ranking of pages.

IP addresses may be used, and probably is used, as an indicator for possible TOS violations (i.e. part of a content farm, content spammer, etc). But each site/page will still be judged on its own merits as shared IP addresses are very common and to ban or penalize an IP address because one site using it is black hat is obviously bad for business (and just not smart).

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