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C-class IP

by seoxcell
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What is a C-class IP and why should I care?
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  • Profile picture of the author John F Kennedy
    A class C IP address differs from others in the fact that the number in the third octet changes.

    In other words 111.222.333.444 it would be the 3s in this case that change.

    The benefit is that you can have multiple sites on separate class c Ip addresses that link to one another and search engines will see this as a separate site and count these links as back links.
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  • Profile picture of the author samual james
    if you see any ip address its divided in to 4 parts – AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD. Third section is called C Class IP.
    In the era of spam, many webmasters started creating multiple website on same server and linked each other to increase the sites backlink and ranking. Search Engines identified this issue and started avoiding links coming from similar IPs – given its easy to get different D class ips on same server, Search Engines also started avoiding Links from same C Class IP. So when Search Engine see that you’ve a link coming from same C Class IP on which your website is located, the backlink will not have any importance. Please note you’ll not get penalized if you’ve link coming from same C class IP, but you’ll not get any advantage either. So if you are doing the link exchange specially if you don’t have your own server, do check if the person you are linking to has a different C class ip than yours
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      C-class IP's are not at all important to worry about unless you are setting up your own network of sites for the purpose of generating backlinks.
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      • Profile picture of the author LinkVariety
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        C-class IP's are not at all important to worry about unless you are setting up your own network of sites for the purpose of generating backlinks.
        I guess that was the reason for the question :p
        Most IM's have multiple sites, and many want to string them together... its an important topic IMO.
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        • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
          Originally Posted by LinkVariety View Post

          I guess that was the reason for the question :p
          Most IM's have multiple sites, and many want to string them together... its an important topic IMO.
          Many new IM'ers have it in their head that they need a separate C-class IP for each of their sites. That is not at all true unless you are setting up a link network, which few IM'ers ever do or should even attempt.
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