Well the reason I asked this is because I've been using cross links for a while on my sites, but none of the sites were really set up for SEO; however last week I bought a second hosting account (different nameserver and IP) and within two days found that new page and another on my other account linking to it in google's top ten listings. I was just trying to figure out how I accomplished that, whether it was due to the text on the pages being set up more for seo, the links being on different hosts, or what. I've never had any luck with s.e. results prior to this and I'd like to figure out what I did
Thanks for the replies, it sounds like it has more to do with the pages being optimized than the hosting accounts.