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Ok, here is a real world example. I own www.42topics.com. I am investing six months to build this site. This is hosted at webfaction.com. Now suppose there are
by shabda 18y ago
Ok, here is a real world example.
I own www.42topics.com. I am investing six months to build this site. This is hosted at webfaction.com. Now suppose there are a few spam sites hosted at webfaction.com, at my IP. Tomorrow Google decides that they are going to do IP based filtering, on spam sites, and my site is toast. I lose significant trafic, and my only source of Income.
Compare this scenario to Joe Spammer, who has hundered borderline spam sites. Tomorrow Google decides that 10 are spam and torches them. He creates 10 new sites, and is back on track. Guess who is hurt more by constantly changing guidelines?
- mechanical_fish 18y agoTomorrow Google decides that they are going to do IP based filtering, on spam sites... ... and you switch web hosts? In, like, a day? ... or buy a static IP? ... and/or you and every other customer of webfaction.com threatens to switch, whereupon webfaction.com, faced with wholesale erosion of their business, gets medieval on the "spam sites" and Google forgives them? I appreciate that this would be a major expense and hassle if it happened very often. But (a) this is still a hypothetical example: does Google actually do this? And (b) if this keeps on happening to you, you need to re-evaluate your methodology for choosing web hosts. :)