Yahoo_Mike - 4:30 am on Apr 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

Soapystar and others...

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are you saying that if a large number of sites on a single IP are considered spam then all sites on that IP get a penalty whether they are spam or not? If 95 sites on IP were spamming and 5 were not would the 5 go down with the 95?
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Yes, if there is a large number of sites on an IP address range that are spam sites, then others that share that IP range will be considered in violation. Keep in mind that in pretty much all of these cases that we've encountered, it's because someone is intentionally using a large number of sites specifially to increase their rankings / game the system. There are very few cases that someone is caught in this type of situation by mistake.