Web Host Industry News write on the new methods adopted by hosting providers, in this case Host Gator, to tackle the issue of linkage between sites sharing a class C range, and by implication, virtual hosts with identical IPA’s

“IPA’s that fall within the same class C range are likely to be close, and sometimes on the same server. Google penalizes sites with the same C class for linking to each other. For Web hosts and their customers, this can be an understandably frustrating issue, since certain sites have similar themed content and may wish to host their Web sites in one location.

“This was one of the considerations in Host Gator’s recent launch of hosting services enhanced for search engine optimization under the brand, SEO Hosting. The service includes all the expected SEO capabilities, but more importantly, customers can use it to optimize their Web sites for search engines by enabling them to host on multiple C classes.”