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We from are trying to boost our website ranking. I read a lot about generating link popularity and that it is one of the most important aspects.
Because we build websites for customers, we have about 50 sites in our controll. I was thinking about placing links from these 50 sites to our main domain to boost the link popularity.
To be sure the links are relevant we are thinkin about placing relevant text around the links and making the link text relevant.
Only the issue is that all these 50 sites are hosted on one server with one IP adress. I heard that if you have a lot of links from different website from the same IP adress, Google will detect it and give the links less value.
Regarding this issue I have a few questions:
1. Is it true that Google checks your IP?
2. And if it is true, how many sites could be hosted on one IP adress?
3. If it is true does Google also checks IP ranges? Because we can easy get different IP adresses, but they will all be within the same IP range.
I really hope someone can help me clear this issue!
Regards,
Wouter
It is more important that these 50 sites are not heavily interlinked. Let's say most of those 50 sites are widget-makers in different cities in your country with links to each other. Starting a link exchange with all of them, will make your site a part of that network. That is something you should avoid.
If there is no or hardly any relation between the 50 sites other than the fact that your company build the web sites and host them at the same server, then you have nothing to fear. Especially if you don't link back. And even if links from the same IP range would transfer less PageRank, having links to your site will help your site with some PageRank, link text, and maybe even potential customers if you built impressive sites.
What if I link from some sites to some other ones, but not to all.
Say:
#1 link to #11, #12, #13
#2 link to #14, #15, #1
#3 link to #2, #12, #xx etc...
they are not all cross-linked, but some of them link to each other. And also every time use (bot) visits the page, those links generated automtically. (3 links on each site)
How would that affect PR (listing in general)?
I didn't point all the links to my home page, tho, and divided the links up among my inside pages. If I was linking to an inside page on a main site, I used the anchor text in the link for which that inside page was relevant for.
Overall, I believed this has worked out for me great. It did improve my rankings, but traffic from those links wasn't bad and helped diversify my traffic sources.
Even if this doesn't boost your ranking, you will get traffic from those 50 sites. That traffic can never be taken away and helps you diversify.
Regards,
Wouter
