I’m sitting here right now wondering about the addon domain situation with Bluehost. I set up wordpress on an addon last night, and in the footer of the WP install I see copyright springboard SEO (my primary domain). I didn’t associate anything in the addon domain with Springboard SEO.

I’m really starting to wonder if the search engines will see the sites as being unique entities. The fact that the addons are subdomains of the primary domain has me concerned.

In terms of reasonably priced hosting solutions that offer different IPs for different sites within the same overall account, that’s a great question. Unfortunately, I don’t have a great answer for you. On the domain development side, my portfolio isn’t too big so I’ve been able to to solve the IP issue by having several accounts across the cheap but great hosts such as Blue Host and Host Gator. At some of these guys, I have more than one account (each on a different box). I originally pursued this strategy for stability (if one host goes down, I didn’t want it to wipe out all of my sites), but it also has the added benefit of diversifying across IPs.

Thanks once again, Matt, and I’m looking forward to checking out your site as well!
All the best,
Ian

Interesting post – I found it by searching for ‘bluehost addon domains duplicate content’.

Have you had additional thoughts on the necessity of the 301s to avoid dupe content from the addons? I’m considering doing the 301 as well (hence my google search). Have you tried incorporating Doyle Lewis’s .haccess with success?

Slightly off topic – do you have any personal recommendations for reasonably priced hosting solutions that offer different IPs for different domains without having to pay for new accounts?

cheers,

Matt