Which is better - A) links from multiple IP addresses, or B) Links with more associated social signals?

[JohnScottDixon]

If you had to choose:

A)  100 links contained in posts on 100 PR2* blogs, all on separate IP addresses, where none of the posts had associated social signals,

or

B) 100 links contained in posts within a single PR2* blog (single IP address), where each of the posts had 20 associated social signals,

Which would you choose to increase your SERP performance?

*I chose PR2 so that PageRank would not be a factor in the decision.

[JoshGill27]

I would say option A for sure. Just looking at Wil Reynolds post about getting banned from Google for 12 hours despite having an amazing set of social signals pointed all over his domain speaks highly to anchor text rich links.

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/7-lessons-i-learned-while-being-banned-in-google-for-12-hours

Just don't plan on using some fast link building service as that will get you slapped pretty quick if recent developments are any indication of the future of that tactic.

[JohnScottDixon]

Hey Joshua,

Thanks for the quick response. I saw Wil Reynolds post yesterday, but didn't read it. And, it had the answer written all over it. Thanks!