Can Shared Hosting Lead to Google Penalty?

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You must have heard term "bad neighborhood" being used in link building for getting links from low quality websites. The same concept can be very relevant here also in shared hosting, where you don’t choose who will be your neighbor. Sharing an IP address which is common in shared Hosting can be very harmful for websites if any bad reputation website is there in your sharing network.

If search engine blocks a particular IP of shared hosting all the websites will stop showing in Search engine results including yours; than blaming the hosting provider will not help.

You may guess Google penalty; if the rankings of your website goes down significantly without any notification from Google.  Google’s guidelines are broadly separated into three areas: 1. Design and Content, 2. Technical Guidelines and 3.Quality

Stop Words ignored by Google - Search Engines

Image via CrunchBaseGoogle does not consider words which are extremely common in usage to speed up search results or to save disk space. These words are known as "Stop Words". 

Below is a list of words ignored by search engines:

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