Let us first define what a static or dedicated IP means. As you host your blog or website to a hosting account your site is given an IP address which serves as your “address” on the Internet (simplified: ”A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how to get there.“). With most hosting accounts, IP address is shared. Dedicated IP means an IP address that is unique to your account/ blogs or website.
Why should get a dedicated IP?
Blog monetizing. For those earning money through their blog, it is very important that the site has a dedicated IP. Link builders (aka advertisers) favors site with dedicated IP as link from different IPs appears better in Google. Just imagine if an advertiser contacts you and you have like 20 websites, if you have a shared IP, the chances that the advertiser will buy more links from your site is very little. If you have dedicated IPs for each of your 20 sites that mean 20 paid links from the advertiser.
SEO advantage. A lot of people will say it does not affect SEO but actually it does. If you share IP address with other sites, a link from sites with the same IP as you are, will not be counted as backlinks (most likely) where as if you have 10 sites with each having their own unique IP address, that will be counted as 10 different backlinks (yes, even those sites are yours)
Unfriendly Neighbors. You know how it is to be living in a bad neighborhood? That even if you are not bad yourself, you are stereotyped as such? The same happens with shared IP address. If a website was tagged as a bad site and you share the same IP with it, most likely than not, your website will be tagged as one too.
How much a dedicated IP is? The usual rate for a dedicated IP is around $2.50+ per month.
You have to know though that you cannot have as much dedicated IP as you want since your host can only offer one IP address per account. If you have more blogs, I suggest you get a reseller account with your host and create different Cpanel. Hosting Reseller accounts can have as much dedicated Ip provided it is given one dedicated IP per Cpanel.
Reseller Hosting usually cost $20+ per month. If you have 10 blogs and want to avail 10 dedicated IP, then buy a reseller account. If you will compute it, that will only cost you $5+ (host) per blog per month. It’s actually cheap considering the amount that you will earn (and backlinks.
What should I expect if I change to a dedicated IP?
If you change (buy) a dedicated IP, all your blogs will now share the unique IP address given to you. Although the ultimate goal is to have one IP per blog, sharing it with just your blogs is still better than having the same IP with 100 or more other websites. After your purchase, it will take 1 hour to 6 hour until the changes is finished, and during this time, your blog will be located to a temporary location.
thanks for this post mommy peh, ngayon alam ko na what a dedicated IP or static IP is. hanggang ngayon, NOOB pa din kasi ako, lako na when it comes to SEO, CPanel, IP etc LOL
hehe alam mo naman pag may tanong ka, I’m just a PM away
very well-explained. i am now thinking of getting dedicated IP too. thanks for sharing.
go get one na Mommy Rossel
i’ve been thinking also to get a dedicated ip now that i’ve started migrating to wp. this is really a very timely post, thanks for helping me make up my mind
Is having a dedicated IP different from hosting your site on a paid server and having your own domain?
Yes it’s different po, kasi lahat po ng hosted sites sa server na yun will be sharing only 1 IP po pero kung bbili kayo ng sarili nyong IP all of your blogs lang ang mkakagamit nun.
yup it’s different
although connected pa din 
kase you will have to buy a dedicated IP dun din sa paid host mo 
SEO-wise, shared IP really affects the back links of the site..oftentimes, Google considers website/s in a shared IP as link farm which is a NO! NO! to link builders..
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ah, so one can have 1 static or dedicated ip for the blogs or sites you own pala as long as it is yours and it is not shared by other people. nice to know. and wow, if one is going to avail reseller account and IP addresses for 10 blogs, that is $5+(host)x 10=50/per month and for the whole year, that is 600 dollars! wow, very expensive business…
it’s not
specially if you will be earning 50 USD per blog per month( minimum na yan ha), tubong lugaw ka nga eh 
that sounds interesting…i wish i can afford it so i can get a dedicated ip for my blogs soon. thanks for sharing mommy Peh ^_^
nye mura lang sya no, only 2 or 2.5 a month lang, tapos bawi ka naman agad sa mga DA
Another noob here… Can blogspot or blogger sites get their own dedicated IPs? Wala talaga akong alam. LOL
er I think no.. you should have your own hosting account yata eh
Thanks for the informative post! Makakatulong to sa mga d pa familiar sa IP thingy, pero I agree talagang importante yan lalo na kapag marami kang sites. Kelangan mo talagang bumili ng dedicated IP kung gsto mo pang kumita ng malaki.
uu nga kaya maganda mag invest din sa IP
And sheriff inspired me to write a post like this, too. Lol.
Glad you already have one here.
dali gawa ka din
thanks for the information peh! will be moving my main blog to a dedicated IP soon.
you mentioned that each hosting account can only have one IP?
yes Marce, isa lang per account, so if you have 10 blogs on your account, mag se share sila dun sa IP
Detailed and easy to understand. Finally I understand what a dedicated IP means and what it can contribute. Thanks for sharing!
no prob Thess
Nice post, IX web hosting offers free dedicated ip’s. Not the best host, but not too bad for shared hosting.
Thanks for sharing!
I’m also moving my blogs to have a dedicated IP though I was initially going to do it because it was somewhat required.
After reading your post, I now know why I really should get a static IP.
uu mas OK talaga ang dedicated IP, mas maraming opps na darating sa’yo
Now I understand better! Kaya lang madugo hehe!
but, but, but… google hates sites or blogs that sell links… O_o good tips though…