Fact or Fiction

[Nathan]

So I've been out of the internet development scene for a few years, and slowly getting back into it, anyways I've been reading about SEO over the last week, and they are saying that if you have say... 50 sites on one ip, your are less likely to obtain and high PR...

I just wanted to know if this was fact or fiction... because what's the point in getting a dedicated server to load all your sites on if you cant achieve a decent PR ... You may as well has 50 little hosting plans all over the place???

Just wanted to know if this was fact or fiction? Have you had any experience having multiple sites on the one ip, but still able to get PR results?

 

[richrf]

Just wanted to know if this was fact or fiction? Have you had any experience having multiple sites on the one ip, but still able to get PR results?

Based upon my experiments with Links.com all of what used to be common knowledge about PR and SERP is now ancient history. You will have to completely revamp your thinking and concentrate your efforts on gaining relevant and lingering traffic from authoritative sites (e.g. ones with very high PR) or from search engine traffic. I would say you can completely throw out most of what has been written about concerning links and PR value of your own site.

Rich

 

[mwzd]

The entire paradigm has changed, specially w/ google, yahoo you can still apply old mindsets to.

Goog now also seems to be giving 'weightage' to incoming links more than it used to.

So spammy blog comments or fake edu links can really kill your ranking even though in the past these used to help.

 

[enlytend]

First of all, do you want Page Rank or a page that ranks well for certain keywords? Chasing PageRank isn't productive and not necessarily indicative of how the page will rank for important searches.

I've been reading about SEO over the last week, and they are saying that if you have say... 50 sites on one ip, your are less likely to obtain and high PR...

Where did you read that? Basically, it's fiction. "Excessive number of sites on an IP" is a negative factor, but only one and it doesn't carry much weight. Unless all your sites form a closed network of links (with few/no backlinks from other ip's), or if the IP is a "bad neighborhood". Or if there are serious uptime/page load issues.

Good links have always been better than spammy links, but even more so now that a lot of the spammy ones are deprecated.