[117601] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google Pagerank and "Class-C Addresses"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Lyon)
Mon Sep 21 16:27:07 2009
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909211604480.80435@murf.icantclick.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:26:49 -0400
From: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
To: david raistrick <drais@icantclick.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We used to have a lot of people buying IP's in bulk for SEO. They
would all cancel within one or two months citing that they couldn't
afford it or the project failed, etc. Guess they realized that the
whole thing is a myth.
Jeff
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:09 PM, david raistrick <drais@icantclick.org> wro=
te:
> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, David Hubbard wrote:
>
>> We've had customers leave and go elsewhere after refusing to give them
>> IP's they didn't need because they were convinced by some SEO 'expert' t=
hat
>> they need a bunch of doorway sites on a variety of /24's. =A0If someone =
is
>> willing to leave their host over that, there are certainly going to be h=
osts
>> willing to dish up IP's for SEO reasons, and the waste of addresses
>> continues.
>
>
> I'll take that one further:
>
> I got -fired- my first day after explaining why using proxy servers sprea=
d
> across the world to "present" websites from different IP addresses a) did
> nothing to help their search result rankings and b) was a complete waste =
of
> resources.....
>
>
> Some people just don't want to know.
>
>
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> david raistrick =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote=
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> drais@icantclick.org =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 http://www.expita.com/nomime=
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