[117603] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google Pagerank and "Class-C Addresses"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leslie)
Mon Sep 21 19:20:59 2009
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:20:06 -0700
From: Leslie <leslie@craigslist.org>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090921161802.GB27976@danton.fire-world.de>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Sebastian Wiesinger wrote:
> Hello Nanog,
>
> I'm looking into a weird request which more and more customers have.
> They want "different Class C addresses", by which they mean IPs in
> different /24 subnets.
>
> The apparent reason for this is that Google will rank links from
> different /24 higher then links from the same /24. So it's a SEO
> thingy.
>
I've found that a lot of spammers enjoy having diverse ip's from which
to mail/proxy requests. This may just be a case of ignorance/rumors on
your customers part, but I might suspect some of them of being spammers...
Leslie
