Bad IP Neighborhood Question

[bubliki]

I'm interested, weather bad network neighborhood could cause some penalties in Google indexing and search?

For checking your site neighbors follow this URL (enter your site URL in the end):

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=domain.com

[Fatwallet]

If by 'network neighbor' you're referring to being in the same IP class as malicious sites - i don't think a non malicious site would be truly penalized just for being on the same network as a malicious site.

I DO think that linking to malicious sites is worthy of penalty.

BTW, the google tool you referenced gives you a domains malicious activity report, not network neighbors.

[Thos003]

I do have an example of a site that I launched that normally would have done really well with an exact match domain and original content. However I could not seem to get the site to rank. I wondered if it was that the site was hosted in a bad "neighborhood"  because the IP had some adult sites on it as well (not mine). Or if the problem was that the site was hosted in too much of a cluster of similar sites so as to appear as a network of sites.

I would also argue that with the Panda update that links from bad neighborhoods can hurt you.