Bad neighborhoods not a problem?
Matt Cutts on how you don’t need a dedicated IP
Actually, Google handles virtually hosted domains and their links just the same as domains on unique IP addresses. If your ISP does virtual hosting correctly, you’ll never see a difference between the two cases. We do see a small percentage of ISPs every month that misconfigure their virtual hosting, which might account for this persistent misperception–thanks for giving me the chance to dispel a myth!
Is this saying an inbound from a “bad neighborhood” won’t hurt you because the person can’t help if it there’s porn on the server next to their site? It seems to be saying links aren’t judged on the basis of their IPs – which would mean you can get links from IPs that have issues, get links in from your own sites, whatever. All that matters is the relevance of the link and all that.
Now if only they would realize the same is true with paid ad links…
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