buzzle.com— Google have recently filed a US patent which reveals a great deal of how they rank your web site. Some of it you could never of guessed at...
Jun 16, 2005View in Crawl 4
Fantastic! However, I resent the part where it says "Your hosts IP address. If you are on a shared server it's possible somebody else on that server is using dirty tactics or Spaming. If so your site will suffer since you share the same IP." I use a third-party hosting service in case (though it probably will never happen in our niche business) our site gets digged or slashdotted. If the above statement it true, it seems like Google is inadvertently punishing those who don't pay for their own server and IP address, then favoring the bigger corporates who can afford their own webservers, which is different than indexing actual content.
In the same breath, they are helping the end user by weeding out the bad stuff. It wont completely take you out of the running, I am sure there are safeguards...but it will serve as a penalty.This is not a case of picking on the little guy. You need to get shared hosting with a company that has the customer service skills and who deletes user accounts that serve as spam drones. That way, you'll come out fairly unscathed.
ashembersJun 16, 2005
Fantastic! However, I resent the part where it says "Your hosts IP address. If you are on a shared server it's possible somebody else on that server is using dirty tactics or Spaming. If so your site will suffer since you share the same IP." I use a third-party hosting service in case (though it probably will never happen in our niche business) our site gets digged or slashdotted. If the above statement it true, it seems like Google is inadvertently punishing those who don't pay for their own server and IP address, then favoring the bigger corporates who can afford their own webservers, which is different than indexing actual content.
cheeseonstufJun 16, 2005
In the same breath, they are helping the end user by weeding out the bad stuff. It wont completely take you out of the running, I am sure there are safeguards...but it will serve as a penalty.This is not a case of picking on the little guy. You need to get shared hosting with a company that has the customer service skills and who deletes user accounts that serve as spam drones. That way, you'll come out fairly unscathed.
barnkimJun 16, 2005
Is there a link somewhere to the Google patent that was filed?
pacobellJun 17, 2005
You mean this one?<a class="user" href="http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20050071741&OS=20050071741&RS=20050071741">http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20050071741&OS=20050071741&RS=20050071741</a>