I was reading an article on
Beer Monies that talks about IP neighbours. The author states that all his/her sites were getting sandboxed:
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I did a IP neighbors check on one of my old sites to see what all else was in there. What I noticed was a lot of garbage. Pure garbage everywhere? It seems everyone loves these $10 hosting accounts and just uses them for affiliate sites and spam. I didn?t see 1 legit looking site on my entire server with them
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After transferring from Hostgator to a new hosting account, the author states:
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My site is now ranked #1 for my term overnight. I few other things happened to this domain so its hard to tell right now which one caused my site to go from sandbox to #1 but I think it was the hosting move.
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Do you know if it's true that Google treats your site differently depending on who your IP neighbours are?
You can check who your IP neighbours are
here.