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So.. what's the conclusion? Choose a host that is not popular? or choose a host that is popular?
[edited by: PowerUp at 4:28 pm (utc) on April 4, 2007]
[edited by: caveman at 5:25 pm (utc) on April 4, 2007]
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won't there be higher chances of sites linking to me coming from the same host/ip and therefore hurting my page rank if google assumes that I am link farming.
If you take you're reasoning just a bit further along it would lead to every group of sites using very popular hosts would be subject to the same assumption. That's a pretty sizeable chunk of the web that would be assumed to be link farming ;-).
The only thing I use host size for as a factor is support. Do they have the support staff to handle the number of hosted sites? Am I likely to be bounced around among different support techs, repeating my issues over and over? Can the initial tech help me, or does my problem have to be "elevated"? Etc.
If you take you're reasoning just a bit further along it would lead to every group of sites using very popular hosts would be subject to the same assumption. That's a pretty sizeable chunk of the web that would be assumed to be link farming ;-).
hmmm, you make some sense when you put it that way. What I can conclude from your statement is..
1. If your "whois" info is visible and Google bot sees 2 different whois info coming from the same IP, maybe google will treat these 2 sites as non related.
2. But will google treat all sites with whois privacy info coming from the same IP as belonging to the same owner?
lastly, if there isn't some truth in this, why do online SEO gurus keep mentioning to host your sites with different webhosts instead of the same host if you want to point your sites at each other.
if there isn't some truth in this, why do online SEO gurus keep mentioning to host your sites with different webhosts instead of the same host if you want to point your sites at each other
The keywords here are "if you want to point your sites at each other."
If you're trying to develop a network of seemingly independent sites that link to each other to some extent, then yeah, best practice is still probably different hosts, different class Cs, different whois, etc.
But just for the fact that a site is hosted by a very large host I guess I'd have to ask: What is the probability that a site is going to garner an overabundance of links from other sites hosted by the same company? With the millions of sites out there I think the likelihood of that is very, very low.
you might benefit from considering alternate, google/yahoo/msn approved link development strategies
What is an approved link?
