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Hi everyone! Using the Open Site Explorer tool I can see many of my competitors leave blog comments which (according to the tool) are providing link value to their sites. This seems like something that can easily be used in a black hat sort of way.

My question is this - Is leaving comments on blogs an effective way of generating positive links to my site?

Adrian

Thanks Radu, that's the conclusion I came to as well. Thanks for verifying my thought! Adrian

My question stems from the discovery that having links from sites with the same IP address is useless, so I'm wondering if there is any advantage to having my site use a unique IP address instead of one that is used for multiple sites (some targeting the same terms as me).

Cheers! Adrian

Nope I mean that there are multiple real estate sites targeting the same geographic terms as me on the same server (ip address). I'm wondering if this will affect my sites ability to rank.

Hi there, really new to seo and loving being able to research everything on seo moz. I have a question about the ip address of my site:

I use a company that sells templated real estate websites (I'm a realtor) and I'm noticing all of their websites show as having the same ip address. There are probably 100's of sites on their server targeting the same keywords as I am, would this affect my ranking at all? I'm just considering switching to a Wordpress site with a unique IP address, so I'm curious to find out how the seomoz members would answer this question.

Cheers, Adrian