It is one of the biggest concern that shared hosting affects search engine ranking or not. In this article, I am going to share my viewpoint and expert comments about this, so lets find out the answer here:

Firstly Understand What is Shared Hosting

First of all, we need to understand what is shared hosting. It is a web server where 20 to 200 websites are hosted in a single server. Actually it depends upon your hosting provider that how many websites they store in a single server.

In shared hosting all the hardware resources are shared by those websites which are hosted in a server. That means if any website uses high resources in that server can affect other site which is hosted in the same server.

Does Shared Hosting Affect SEO or not?

One of the most common misconception that if any illegal or spammy website is hosted on the same shared hosting, then Google might penalize you because you are hosted on the same IP address. Nowadays, no web hosting companies will allow to hosting illegal and spammy things on their servers which can cause them a loss or penalty.

Moreover, Google's webspam head, Matt Cutts said some time back in a video that shared hosting won’t impact your search engine ranking. Don't forget to watch this video.