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No. We do not allocate dedicated IP addresses for the
purpose of search engine optimisation as this is against rules
imposed by our upstream providers (data facilities, IP
owners, etc). There are no exceptions to this rule.
With regard to Google, SEO and dedicated IP addresses, it's
recommended that that clients see this webpage where the
public posed questions to Google's Director of Technology,
Craig Silverstein. In this article the following question was
asked:
"Why in this day and age does google continue to penalize
sites that are virtual hosted? With ip addresses becoming
harder to get/justify every day why does google discount the
relevance of links that don't come from a unique ip address.
Please don't just deny it, I think the Internet community
deserves an explanation."
Craig's answer was:
"I can't just deny it? What are my other choices? [:)] Actually,
Google handles virtually hosted domains and their links just
the same as domains on unique IP addresses. If your ISP
does virtual hosting correctly, you'll never see a difference
between the two cases. We do see a small percentage of ISPs
every month that misconfigure their virtual hosting, which
might account for this persistent misperception--thanks for
giving me the chance to dispel a myth!"
See the full interview here:
http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/02/07/03/1352239.sh
tml?tid=95
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