how important is unique IP / nameserver to SE ranking?

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Originally Posted by baddog

Excuse me, but you are missing the big picture here. Let's say you have 100 freesites in the mature niche. If someone does a search looking for some mature content do you want Google to show all 100 in their search results, or just two of them?

How is it helping the surfer for them to not know about your 98 other sites?

I dont profess being an expert on the subject and please enlighten me if I'm wrong. |cool|

Firstly most of a webmasters free sites (of the same niche) are on the same domain name (or a small number of domain names). But if you are implying that all 100 freesites are on seperate domains then both you as a webmaster and the surfer would want all your sites in the Search Results (unless the pictures and content were pretty much the same, which, if your a good webmaster they shouldn't be).

As bill says if your just pretty much duplicating content then of course your sites will be punished for doing so and to avoid this you should be on different nameservers and IPs. But a good webmaster should not really duplicate content.

So, if you have 100 sites on different domains then yes all of should appear in the search results as long as its not duplicated content. But being free sites (so only small with low PR etc) they will probably be buried very deep in the SERPs.

However 100 sites on 1 IP is a bad idea, I'm sure google will pick up on that and possiblt take a disliking to it (possibly considering it should just be treated as one big site).

So you should limit the amount of sites per IP/nameserver.

I dont really know an exact figure but I think the generally about 5 domains per IP.

Am I right here or not?????