Jakester - 12:23 am on Jan 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

I have a similar question but not about 'free' sites etc. We have our own server and host our web pages and those of our franchisees.

My question is - does the hosting of similar sites on the same server have an adverse affect on rankings?

I'm seeing a lot of advice in the SEO world that would seem to indicate this to be a 'bad' thing. If so will hosting one site somewhere else and linking to all the sites on our server help?

any one know?
Thanks