Can a spammy website affect the ranking of other sites hosted on the same server?
Why the open web links it
A Google representative answers whether spammy sites on a shared server can impact the SEO of other sites on the same server.
Linked by 23 independent sites, 5 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including semrush.com, moz.com, backlinko.com, 34sp.com, rankmath.com.