Websites and blogs are sprouting daily. Who knows what’s the exact number, but does it matter? Every blogger that would like to maximize the benefits of investment on the Internet arena would in some way be interested in search engine optimization (SEO). In the beginning, I don’t have much knowledge about SEO and how could I full benefit from it. It was only later that after some experiment on my site that I get to see the effects of SEO.

I would like to share a points which might be of interest to any serious blogger. I started blogging outright with some paid hosting web service, as my mentors in the industry have told me of the advantage of having a paid hosting. It’s a good start already as compared to having some free hosted site. Those were the times that I have little knowledge about the details of hosting services. After a year though of blogging, I have a bit of understanding about web hosting and how it affects a website’s search engine optimization.

Shared hosting would be cheap as a web hosting is shared by every client under one IP Address. I have been managing multiple website hosted on shared hosting. On my experience, links between those shared IP address hosting are having less value in search engine algorithms. Thus, dedicated hosting would give a blog or website edge in SEO. This is because of the static IP attached to a dedicated hosting service. Another big advantage could actually be setting up a number of static IP’s from different class-C blocks hosted on the same dedicated server.

Dedicated servers could give the owner great control for customization of server configurations like specific configurations on PHP settings which is not possible with shared hosting. Aside from that, email functionality is very much configurable to suit your particular needs through a CPanel. Of course the support available for dedicated hosting are much more than that of shared hosting.

Those are just some of the advantages of dedicated server hosting. The most important one I consider is the SEO benefit of it which in the long run out weights the cost. Everything boils down to making more income generated from the website or blog. I myself could say that moving to a dedicated hosting with static IP would be one of the best decisions for a website.