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Most of the blogs are on shared hosting. Until unless a blog do not have high traffic it can not afford dedicated servers. If your blog is on free blogging platform like Blogger, Typepad then surely your blog is on shared hosting.
What is Shared Hosting
As clear from the name shared hosting that many websites lies on the same server or many websites sharing a single server. It is also called as Virtual hosting service. It reduces the cost for hosting as many site owners are sharing the same server for hosting the website. Every website reside on separate partition or place to make it septate from other.
Do Shared Hosting Effect Website SEO or Not
Most of SEO guru will tell you that if your website is on shared hosting and you have spammy and porn websites in your neighbourhoud on server then there is every chance that your SEO get effected. The main reason for this is the IP of that server hosting spammy or porn sites gets noted by the search engines and if your site is using the same IP in case of shared hosting then there is every chance that your site get penalized due to this. You can check your website neighbourhoud through this tool
But this is not true. Search Engines know that you don't have control over the hosting server. You can only control your website and can only police the links going out from your website. Then how would your SEO will get penalized for bad neighborhood in case of shared server ?
Google Matt Cutts discuss the issue in this video
After watching the video you might get the point that the SEO of your website will not effect if there are spammy websites on the same server until unless the ratio of spammy to normal websites is too high. If it is the case then do change your hosting.
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