SEO Tycoon

**Optimist5** · 11-17-2009, 10:47 AM

I have my main website and I'm creating a few other websites. My question is: would you put your other websites on different IPs so the interlinking looks more natural? Does it even matter?

**chrishirst** · 11-17-2009, 11:50 AM

No, No and No

**Optimist5** · 11-17-2009, 12:18 PM

Thank you Chris.

Just out of curiosity so I could explain it to others: why?

**chrishirst** · 11-17-2009, 01:26 PM

Just because the link ing is from different IPs will not make the links "look" natural, if anything it will make it look less natural because you have deliberately set out to make it not natural.

If the sites are part of a genuinely related group then just link to and from them af it it were one single "site". Your definition of a "site" and what search engine will treat as a "site" are two different things.
You treat a site as a collection of pages grouped under a single hostname.

SEs will treat a group of pages, domains or sub-domains that share a common navigation as a "site" as well.

Trying to fake your intentions will leave a Yeti sized "footprint", if you want to make it appear "natural" then make it natural and just link to the sites as you would if SEs did not exist.

**Optimist5** · 11-17-2009, 02:31 PM

Very interesting. Thank you, Chris.

**bally chohan** · 11-20-2009, 04:47 PM

But still we can not ignore search engines. It is much better to host theme related sites on different IP's. why to take risk ?

**chrishirst** · 11-20-2009, 05:31 PM

There is no "risk". Just look around.

Do Wordpress.org sites get "penalised", do blogspot sites get "penalised" do your much vaunted "squidoo" pages, "hubpages" and other such multi-user sites ON A SINGLE IP or the same range of IPs get penalised or the links are not counted.

NO!! Yet the same people who spout crap about how you should create multiple "blogs", "squidoo pages" hubpages", spam social media sites, drop links at Digg, Twitter etc etc (all on single IPs). Then of course in there next breath tell you that links from the same IP are "bad".
While of course selling you links from their network of crappy directories on different IPs of course.

Snake oil salesmen who have simply moved on and are just selling new wares to gullible mugs who fall for their pseudo technical BS.