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Originally Posted by jacobwissler
I am considering purchasing several servers, to host my client's sites. How will Google view this? If I link to people on my own server, with that link have less value than if I linked to a site hosted elsewhere? I have a T3 connection, power backup, and a secure facility. My only concern is linking to clients on the same server.
I would appreciate your advice.
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Just one connection? That doesn't sound good. Our data center has 4 DS3 connections currently, and VERY secure. Yes, it is our own servers, but they have a monitoring service that they run for us and they have people there that can do emergency admin / maintenence.
The links, from what people have observed, won't carry much weight on the same IP / class C block, but they won't carry a penalty. If you're hoping to pass a lot of value to them for
SEO reasons, then what you're proposing to do isn't best. However, since they're not really on-topic links anyway (design firm to client - unless they're also a design firm) won't help as much as it used to anyway, so I guess same server won't be a big deal either.
As long as they're devalued anyway, more devaluation won't hurt. If you're not concerned about the hosting issues, then go ahead and do it - especially if it'll create more revenue for you.
Brian.