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Originally Posted by vending_machine
Now is this cause, or effect?  |
I'd say it's a lot of cause into play.
The older a site is the better rank it will have and the oldest sites were started when everybody go an IP address!
I didn't even know IPs could be shared until I moved from my first host.
Further, sites with dedicated hosting are run by people who are more serious about their website and thus have been doing seo and all the tweaks for years to get this rank. Dedicated hosting mean dedicated IP.
Webmasters that can afford dedicated servers also can afford to promote their site better and give a way free things that create back links etc...
The age of the site is really a killer.
I have a 9 yr old site, I've owned it for nine years but the domain was first created at the start of the internet. I noticed that I was no where to be found in the rankings for a particular term so I added this term to my site and a few weeks later I was the number 3 ranked on google for the term. If I keep that term on the page then I will probbly rank number one in another year. This site has been comming up number one for a particular search term for the entire 9 years!!!
The site is on shared IP.