jonathanleger - 3:53 pm on Jul 12, 2008 (gmt 0)

I wanted to get WebmasterWorld users opinion on something I've been pondering lately.

I'm a big supporter of making sure your links come from sites hosted on Class-C IP addresses that are geographically diverse. I have always supported this, not because I'm 100% sure that Google actually checks the geographic location of a Class-C, but that it's so easy to know where the Class-C's reside.

I recently purchased a database IP addresses that geocodes the city/state/country where the IP address is
registered/hosted. So it'd be easy to know if all of a sites links come from, say, Dallas, TX, which could be suspicious even though the Class-C's are all different. I'm assuming Google does this, but you
know what they say about "assume"...

Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks in advance for your feedback.