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Matt Chrust

Matt Chrust is the Director of Business Development at AHosting and a longtime contributor to the company blog. Writes about Website Hosting, VPS and Dedicated server updates and configurations, and staying visible in an AI-driven search landscape filling the gap between infrastructure and hosting services.

Does Your WordPress Hosting IP Address Affect AI Search? The 2026 Answer Will Surprise You
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Why AI requires Dedicated IP Address

Introduction: The Old Debate Is Dead. AI Killed It.

Let me guess. You’ve heard it a hundred times: “A dedicated IP address doesn’t help your SEO.”

And honestly? For traditional Google rankings, that’s mostly true. Google’s own John Mueller confirmed it years ago. Thousands of Fortune 500 companies run on shared IPs without losing a single ranking position. The dedicated IP vs. shared IP SEO debate has been closed for a decade.

So why am I bringing it up in 2026?
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March 28, 2026
How Can You Tell If You’ve Got Negative SEO?

In any field, there will be unscrupulous people who use underhanded tactics to get ahead. The web is no different, especially where search engine optimization is concerned. There exists a ton of black hat SEO tactics that people try to use to get ahead. (more…)

January 16, 2019
Why SEO Is About More Than Just Getting Higher Website Traffic

Search engine optimization used to be a numbers game. For those of us who can remember them, those were dark times. There was no shortage of underhanded, spammy webmasters who sought to game the system through tactics like hidden backlinks, automated content, link-building schemes, and malicious software. (more…)

January 14, 2019
Why Social Media Management Is Essential For Good SEO

Search engine optimization has evolved. While keyword research and on-page SEO are still important in terms of how a website will rank, they’re no longer the only things that matter. How people engage with, perceive, and talk about your brand is every bit as important – if not more so. (more…)

January 10, 2019
Five Ways You Can Keep Your WordPress Site Spam-Free

WordPress and spam go together like highways and traffic jams. Everyone agrees that the former is indispensable, but desperately wishes it could exist without the latter.

The good news is that unlike with gridlock, there IS something you can do about WordPress spam. Quite a bit, actually. And that’s where we come in. (more…)

October 6, 2015
More WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities Have Surfaced – Here’s What You Need To Know

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Even though WordPress is one of the most frequently-targeted platforms for cybercriminals; even though it seems like there’s a new vulnerability connected to the platform every week, WordPress itself is not particularly insecure. Its popular, and its plugin architecture is incredibly open. (more…)

August 28, 2015
The All-Inclusive Guide To Securing Your WordPress Installation

As you well know, WordPress is the most popular content management system in the world. It powers 23% of the web, with over 60 million users worldwide. That popularity has served it well in some regards – it hosts a thriving development community with scores of passionate users coding plugins and helping one another out with technical problems. (more…)

August 20, 2015
Which CMS Is The Best Choice For Dynamic Content?

Technically, there’s no ‘wrong’ choice when it comes to selecting a content management system. All the top CMS’s have a diverse selection of plugins that allow them to tackle pretty much any task you throw at them – most of them could be used to build your website, regardless of what you intend to do with it. (more…)

August 6, 2015
Flash Is Dead: Long Live Flash

There was a time when Flash was the go-to for rich media content – everything from animations to rich graphics to browser games. Unfortunately, times have changed. Flash is no longer what it once was. Now, rather than being a gold standard, it’s little more than a horrendous quagmire of crippling security vulnerabilities. (more…)

July 29, 2015
WordPress Is About To Get A Lot Better At eCommerce

WordPress parent company Automattic is finally spending the $160 million in funding it raised last year – on plugins, apparently. Late last month, it purchased WooCommerce, a powerful shopping plugin designed to help publishers turn their websites into digital storefronts. Although CEO Matt Mullenweg wouldn’t comment on the price, recode claims that inside sources have clocked it at around $30 million. (more…)

July 7, 2015