Comments on: Is PageRank still a valid SEO tool?

By: JustinHarrison

JustinHarrison — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:34:05 +0000

If it is for the local market, it should be hosted locally – for SEO value.

By: Johan

Johan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:13:41 +0000

Thanks for the reply Justin In terms of the South African Directory would it make much of a difference if the IP is in the USA otherwise cost wise it could be expensive to try and host it locally. Wouldn't doing a .com domain with a SA flavor be a better option and then only allow SA publishers only on there to publish to keep it local. I don't mind doing it on my US server as the cost would be minimal. Then do you think it will work doing a SA only article directory. I mean are there enough local people that understand the benefits of using article marketing and how to use it. Your valued input will be much appreciated

By: JustinHarrison

JustinHarrison — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:13:36 +0000

Johan the short answer is yes, you should have separate IP address for each, this is a big factor especially when there will be a great deal of outbound links.

The other thing you need to take into consideration is location of IP address, make sure is geo targeted to the country you are serving.

By: johan

johan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:21:31 +0000

Hey Justin,
I have a question for you that I have asked now on 2 different forums but nobody can answer me. I mentioned on another comment somewhere that I want to start a few article directories and also do one just for South Africa. I have a number of PR 1-3 domains and decided to use the one http://oz.am for a article directory. I was going to dump this domain but checked and it had PR1 which is not to bad for the time I have had it. I basically purchase the 2 letter domain so that I can make my own sub domains that look like "domains" name.oz.am etc. I have already installed the article script and it is working well and need to think of .co.za domain so will get back to you when that is done.

Now my question;

I have 4 ip's on my server. Will it be negative or positive in terms of google SEO if they all on the same IP or would it be better to have them each on there own IP. As you know PR is the "in thing" when it comes to article directories and I don't want to damage the PR on this site or the other domains I have by using the same IP address

I am planning on distributing a ton of articles via UAW and other services + good back links to these sites to increase the PR

PS this post is not to get exposure on the site but I need to know what to do here as having a dedicated IP on each domain is no problem as it is cheap