Burton Kent

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James Brausch is having an open question time for search engine rankings. As far as I can tell, most SEO “experts” use SWAGs (Scientific Wild-Assed Guesses). James actually used his background in reverse-engineering to discover how search engines really determine ranking.

My question is, have you found any evidence that sites that link to each other, and appear to have the same owner (the same hosting provider, domain registry contacts, IP address, etc.) are penalized in some way? I’m following your content vs. product site separation explained in the June issue of your newsletter, and wonder if there’s a penalty if the search engines notice this.

Thanks.