Would google consider this a different link

Ip's with the same c class

[apocman]

I am creating a bunch of article sites that are closely related to a particular nich. I will be having each article site on a different Ip address for inbound linking purposes and of course for my clients to read. My question is will google count the inbound links as different sites or do each site need to be on a different c class also?

I thought about doing the different c class, but from what I understand I will have to have different hosting companies for each site and I am planning on making alot of them.

thanks for your time

[tedster]

You are thinking mostly in terms of the original Hilltop Algorithm here -- and Google is even better at seeing relationships between sites than that. It is very unlikely that you can get Google to see these links as truly independent sites, unless you first spend significant time developing each one independently -- and that also means that you watch your "footprint" quite diligently.

IMO, IP addresses and C-blocks are just the tip of what gets looked at when links are inspected and valued or not. The natural or unnatural qualities of linking patterns signal themselves in many ways to Google's web map.

[apocman]

So basically your saying even though I use different c class it still will be no good for inbound links?

I am needing to know if I do have to have different ip's and different c class or just different ip's in order for search engines to consider them differnt links. Im not concerned on google looking into the links deeper cause they will be nich directories that are related and very informational for the users. The links coming from the articles will be quality relevant one way links.

before I get into creating these sites , I am needing to know if I should try all different c class and ip's or if just having the sites on different ip's is good enough.

[tedster]

I've done it both ways, and I've even linked from different domains on the identical IP address. I see no difference in the results, with one possible exception: that a subdomain with an independent IP address seems to be taken a bit more "seriously" than a subdomain on the same IP address as the parent domain.

As I said, Google just plain "sees" when domains are related and treats the links between them accordingly -- as less valuable to the algorithm than a truly independent "vote" for the site would be. I think the independent IP address issue, class-c blocks and all that, has been way over-emphasized.

The links still count, they just seem to count less.

[edited by: tedster at 8:58 pm (utc) on April 10, 2006]

[apocman]

Ok thanks for your replys. It will be much easier just to have different ip's as in different c class, I would hate to have a different hosting companies for each domain that would be a mess :).