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Originally posted by nohaber
On the changing the IP stuff.
If sites(pages) A and B have the same IP3 then they are labeled in the same affiliate group. If 2 sites have too much duplicate or near-duplicate content, their pages are also labeled with the same affiliate group.
Now let's say you change the IP of site B. Google will crawl it as a completely new site, and when google indexes it, it will find that it is duplicate with the old B site, which still wouldn't have fallen from googles data. If a site X is affiliate with Y, and Y is affiliate with Z, then X and Z are also affiliates(by affiliate I mean duplicate content or IP3). I don't think google would treat the changed IP of site B as a new site, even in the future. Once a site is labeled an affiliate, it shouldn't change its affiliateID group unless both the IP and its CONTENT change.
Basically changing the IP of site B wouldn't break its affiliate connection to site A. I wouldn't pay money for another IP just to find that google is smart.
This doesn't quite seem right. Otherwise every site on the same IP address would be considered the same site. Remember that the crawl is seperate to the ranking procedures. Once google crawles the site, it will find that the domain is associated with a new IP and that is all. I don't think it would consider it to be a totally new site purely because it has the same domain. This will be used in the initial result set and THEN that will be used to find interlinking between affiliated sites (with the same IP3). At least, from looking at the patent, that's how I understand it.