I'm no SEO expert, but one thing I've learned this past years is that several links from the same IP tend to get redundant. Google will filter out or even penalize several links that come from the same IP, right? I have this impression because sometimes I deal in sponsored posts, and there are MANY customers who won't do business unles all blogs are on different IPs. If so, how is article marketing even possible? Don't article directories tend to operate in a single IP? That would mean those resource box links heading out to a landing page also come from the same IP. Wouldn't that make them redundant? Is there a point in submitting several articles aimed at the exact same keyword, in the exact same article directory? Or is that a total waste of time?
You'd have to have, like, 10+ from the same IP to really lose out on the value, I suspect. But you should always mix up your article directories. I've got a 5 post blog that (up until 2 days ago) ranked 4th for its target key term for 2 months and its got a variety of ezines, goarticles, and hubpage articles on each post for backlinks. I've never put a ton of one article directory links on just one page for backlinks.
I don't understand....the IP address is different depending on the network location right??...and you submitting articles to directories doesn't really matter...it's what the back links from visitors to articles and their unique ip address matter to search engines...
I might be wrong, but I think that you're off by a longshot. My understanding is that websites have IP addresses, same as individual users. However as opposed to visitors, websites tend to have fixed IPs depending on the server they're hosted at. So if you have several blogs in the same hosting account, they all have the same IP. @Nanashi: thanks for the reply, it falls very much in line with my own estimations. This is one of those things that Gurus never quite "remember" telling us about, but they really ought to.