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 You hear a lot about search engine optimization about back links, linking from your own site, internal site linking.

 But one thing you don’t hear about too often is where the links come from.

 What do I mean by that?  Well, when the search engines look at links they actually divide them up by IP addresses.  If you have 1000 links to  your site but they all come from one or two IP addresses then it won’t help you with search engine optimization as much as having 5 links from 5 different IP addresses.

  The reason for this is that a lot of people put a ton of links to their own sites from their own sites.  Since all these links come from one IP  address the search engines will basically count them only one time.  This is how they stop you from  creating a blog with a 1000 posts, with every post pointing to one site, from counting as a 1000 back links. It is an internal control that they use to stop the blackhat guys from taking over.

 Does this mean that you shouldn’t link from one of your sites to another of your sites?

 No it doesn’t mean that, you definitely want to link your sites together but if you are like most people and your sites are all on one IP Address (like with add on domains) the links don’t count  as backlinks to the search engines.  In fact even if your IP Address is in the same server block it won’t count.

  What is a server block?

  IP Addressess are a group of 4 numbers from 0 to 255 that look something like this 216.187.86.159
Most hosting services will have all their IP  addresses in one block, for example if we were using
the example above you might see blocks that look  like this:

216.187.86.159
216.187.86.160
216.187.86.161
216.187.86.162

 As you can see the first two sets of numbers don’t change.  To search engines these are the same IP
addresses.

 If you have a number of sites (like niche blogs) you are better servered if you put each of your
sites on a different IP Block. This will greatly increase the effectiveness of your cross links.

 But most hosting services will only let you have  the one IP block. This is the reason I have several
different hosting services, vps, and dedicated  servers.

 If you really want to make the search engines  notice you one of the best ways to do it is to create 4 or 5 related sites (blogs work great) and have all of them point at one main site from different IP blocks.  This will take you one giant step towards becoming an authority site that the  search engines love.

 A couple of years ago I met David Purdue and we talked about setting this up where we could share hosting and there for get different IP Blocks for our sites because the only other option was to  set up a number of different hosting accounts with a number of different services to get these different IP Blocks.

 The idea was there and I knew from my own testing that it worked great but implimentation was, to be
blunt, a pain in the butt.  You had to know someone that had multiple hosting accounts and trade space with them to get the different IP blocks or you had to set up all the different hosting services.

 For the last two years David has been working on a way to make getting different IP blocks simple for everybody.  He has set up a system that will let you set up sites on five different IP Blocks from one account.  These IP addresses all have  a different A block (the first set of numbers in a IP address) which is the most valuable aspect of different IP Addresses.

  Not only that but you get Cpanel, Fantastico and you still have the addon domains.  The best part is that it is much more inexpensive than setting up 5 different hosting accounts. And much easier to work with.

  He explains it even more at his site:

Niche Simple

  Check it out, if you want to build an authority site and dominate the search engines there is no better way to start.  Combine your own cross linking with a normal backlink strategy and you will soon be the Authority for your niche.

 As of this morning there are only 53 spots left at the introductory price, so if you are  trying to be the authority site now is the time to grab this.

Niche Simple