jamsy - 1:32 pm on Feb 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

Must agree it is a great post and sure it would of worked well 12 months ago, but surely a campaign plan to last 12 months is far too long in search engine years.
In 12 months time how will google fare, they could -

1) Go PPC
2) Go Bust
3) Lose market share

or worse still they could be taken over be AOL or Microsoft.

..virtual hosting is still dicey. I don't trust the spiders or all se's to get it right Tool. It was just last fall that there was one major engine that had problems with virtual hosted sites"

What engine was this Brett?

However IMHO i can't for the life of me think how any one could tell a virtual server to a dedicated server. I would wager that the majority of small to medium sized web design/marketing companies host all clients sites on one dedicated server with each client having a virtual site within that server! Meaning, that the engines who have problems with v servers would soon have to adapt to cope with v sites/servers.

This reminds me of the same Class C range scare. Everyone was under the impression that google penalised sites on the same class "c" IP range. When in fact common sense would tell us that the market for sites on the same range is massive with the majority of smaller web firms having at least 30 clients on the same server and Ip address.

Google would never be able to ban/penalise all these sites because their home page would go from .....

Google Searching 2,073,418,204 web pages

to

Google Searching 4,204 web pages :(

ducking for cover