Server and multiple sites

[BobAnderson]

We have multiple sites selling similar products in different ways but have always kept them separate on the off chance that google does not like it or they penalize one site.

We have always put them on different servers but now thinking for performance as they are on shared hosting to put them on a single server which would be our own but we do not know the SEO considerations.

We can assign multiple IPs to a server but I am not 100% sure whether there is still a negative impact of running multiple sites on the same server even if from a different IP.

Any help would be appreciated, what I am really asking is could if they are on the same server with different IP's be still linked together by google?

[bill369]

If the look and feel is different on each site and each has it's own content it would not really matter. Just be careful interlinking those site with each other. If you can assign each website with their own IP that would be the best!