Google and IP Addresses Options

[steveeyes]

Hi all.

I read a lot here, but only post every once in awhile. Obviously you guys are experts and I'm far from it. I have been damaged by the latest google updage (called Austin). Can't figure out what happen. All 2 of my sites were in the top 10, prior to Austin (I have 3 sites now). Here is my question.

My Server is Ipower. When I signed up, I bought 3 domain names from them. This is how it is structured.

I have the main domain... www.filipinaeyes.com. Next www.filipinalady.biz. Next www.filipina-lady.org. The first two have a PR5 and filipina-lady.org just went up two days ago so no PR yet. Kinda stopped working on it, wondering why my other two sites dropped off the map.

In all cases, you type in the www.xxxx.xx to reach my site, but when I look on the server, all three sites are under the same public_html folder.
Filipinaeyes is under public-html. filipinalady.biz is under public_html in a folder called filipinalady-biz and filipina-lady.org is under public_html in a folder called filipina-lady-org.

Hmmm,,,is this hurting me with google? Especially with this new algo. I get the impression it has something to do with hilltop and crosslinking can actually hurt you. If that is the case, I wonder if the way Ipower has my domains setup could be a problem with crosslinking.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

thanks..steve

[Black_Knight]

Hi Steve, regardless of the file and directory structure on the server, if you have cross-linked three different but related domains that are served from the same server then that is never optimal.

LocalRank is certainly known to discount any links from the same IP block, so none of the crosslinks will be of any help in your rankings under that filter.

However, Google were known to aggressively penalize cross-linked domains before LocalRank was ever discussed. Unless the sites are mirrors, I would definitely advise removing the cross-linking. Treat the sites as entirely separate entities if you want google to do the same.

[steveeyes]

Thanks Black Knight for the help. I'm going to get rid of all crosslinking between my sites to see if this helps. It's so confusing. There is so much information out there, it makes it hard to know what to do.

I read on one forum that crosslinking doesn't hurt you it is just ignored. But there has to be a reason for my drop so I'm willing to try something. I went from the top 10 to 200 since this new algo so there has to be a reason for the drop, it's just hard to find out what it is.

Thanks again.

Steve

[Opix]

I have 2 sites on the same server with 3 cross links, is this enough to penalise me ?

[steveeyes]

Having two sites on the same server, shouldn't penalize you if I understand it correctly. I just read this on another fourm.

How does Hilltop define affiliate sites?

*Affiliate sites are defines as follows –

(1) Pages that originate from the same domain (www.ibm.com, www.ibm.com/us/, products.ibm.com, solutions.ibm.com etc.)

(2) Pages that originate from the same domains but with different top level and second level suffixes (like www.ibm.com, www.ibm.co.uk, www.ibm.co.jp etc.)

(3) Pages that originate from neighborhood IPs (first 3 common octet in the IP number like 66.165.238.xxx is common)

(4) Pages that originate from affiliate of affiliates (if www.abc.com is hosted on the same IP octet as www.ibm.com, then www.abc.com is an affiliate of www.ibm.co.uk even if they are on a different IP series)

It is #3 above that concerns me. When I bought my IPs (3) I didn't realize how they set it up. All 3 of my domains are under one public_html folder. Which I believe would put the IP number within the same neighborhood.

However, if I buy my domain name from elsewhere, like go daddy, I belive the IP address would be different even though it would be on the same server. However, not sure. I'm really trying to understand this concept and Black Knight seems to have the best insight. I hope he responds or someone else who is as knowledgeable.

From what little I understand, I think I would be better off buying my domain names from different companies. However, I would use them all on the same server.

As far as crosslinking, I believe you stay away from that no matter what

What does the experts say?