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> wrote:
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' that they need a bunch of doorway sites on a variety of /24's. If someone is willing to leave their host over that, there are certainly going to be hosts 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 spread 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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