Do the search engines regard incoming links from websites hosted on the same server as lower quality links?

[Maxinder]

Google takes into consideration the diversity of IP's linking to you.

You will still get credit for links if too many come from the same IP - but they will have less weight than if they were coming from a different IP. They may be considered authority backlinks, but given less weight (it depends if the websites are authority websites are not -- simply having contextual backlinks doesn't make them authority backlinks).

Your best bet is to keep them on separate IP addresses to get the full SEO benefit. You will still get SEO benefit though even if it's hosted on same IP.

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