Shared IP vs dedicated IP… Do I need dedicated IP for my blogs? That’s the question that I asked on July 2009. And I got myself a dedicated IP in the end. Thought of lot of things back then. SEO, traffic, search engine ranking were the factors that I made the purchase. Does it really help in SEO on improving my blogs traffic?

What is a dedicated IP?
You will get 1 unique IP number for your web hosting account – your primary domain. For my case, 70.40.213.222 is the dedicated IP that I own. When you type 70.40.213.222 into your web browsers address bar, it will route you to the main domain which is JayceOoi.com.

What is a shared IP?
Most of the websites have shared IP addresses. Depend on web hosting provider, 200 to 300 websites sharing the same 1 IP in shared web hosting package is normal. Some have less than 100 websites sharing 1 IP.

Who need a dedicated IP? What benefit does dedicated IP bring?

• Having your own Private SSL Certificate.
• Anonymous FTP.
• Access your website with IP even when the domain name is inaccessible.

Okay, there is lot of myths about dedicated IP on SEO. Some said it did improve Google PageRank and search engine ranking while some denied. I saw some blogs which rank higher in Google does have dedicated IP when I purchased it last year. It is just USD 2.50 per month for dedicated IP. Can’t you earn that back with your blogs? I asked myself. After using dedicated IP for more than 6 months, does my blog traffic increased? YES. But I did lot of other SEO optimizations too. So does dedicated IP really help? I don’t know…

Will you purchase dedicated IP for your blog?

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I did not have the chance to read both of the Blue Ocean Strategy and Red Ocean Strategy. Just know the high level meaning of them. Red Ocean Strategy is the way that fights hard in existing market while Blue Ocean Strategy values innovation on getting new market. These strategies do not apply on business only, it applies to blogging too.

In SEO world, everyone is fighting to be the highest ranking on a good keyword. I tried lot of efforts to fight a particular very hot keywords (let’s said it as A) by commenting on lot of dofollow blogs with CommentLuv. I also write another post with cold keywords (let’s said it as B) but without any marketing. Based on 1 week Google Analytics traffic, A got 1000 visits and B received 800 visits. I really did lot of works on A but nothing on B. In return, I rather write more articles like B. Normally, I don’t active much in commenting on other blogs. I focus on writing more.

Based on the experiment, the result tells me… Write more valuable articles to get more traffic. The articles must be hot and latest topics. And thanks to Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking too. It tracks even more accurate. Hitting 5k visitors per day by March 2010 is not a mission impossible.

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I used WP-PostViews WordPress plugin by Lester Chan on JayceOoi.com and spBlogger.com. It is a WordPress plugin that display how many times a post had been viewed. The question ~ is it good for you?

As a SEO blogger… What will you do when you see a post that has lot of page view? For me? I will research on the post title keywords popularity. And start my own post on it. Will you do the same too?

By the way, WP-PostViews has the ability to show the most view posts of all time. I stopped using it because of this.

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Don’t ever buy comment link building for SEO. Why?

Leaving the same comment in short period and in the same article is not a good method. Automated comment link building will lead your website to Akismet spam folder. You may get few first comments approved. However, when more and more people started to mark your comment as spam. In the end, all your comments will in spam folder all the time. Does it worth the price?

Personally, I won’t purchase this kind of service. And Google does not like it too. I believe most of us don’t like our blog being spammed by these useless comments, right?

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Busy… Busy… Busy with finding lot of dofollow with CommentLuv blogs lately. Without NoDoFollow Firefox add-on, my life will be hard. You need to view the source code of the links one by one without the help of this add-on. By looking at the code, if you find rel=”nofollow”, then the link is not being followed. Therefore, no Google PageRank link juice will be passing to that website. Just imaging that you need to see the source code the manual way. Lot of time will be wasted by highlighting the link, right click, and click on view selection source. Remember that you need to do so on every blog.

NoDoFollow in action

There are 2 colour of links when you enable NoDoFollow Firefox add-on. Purple colour links are dofollow while pink colour links are nofollow. So I cut short lot of work with this little simple add-on. I am on this colour mode for few days. And will be in the coming days too. Did you have this NoDoFollow installed at your Firefox? If no, grab yours now – link.

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