Satellite Sites ?

[TP_Marketing]

Hello,

One of my competitors has a large amount of sites/blogs, similar to the attachment/screenshot. Is it possible that they own these are are using them to boost their rankings?

Thanks!

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[igor.pinchevskiy]

It's very possible! Quite a few companies do that. If you know all of the domains that are in question you can go to domaintools.com enter the domain name and you can see who the owner is (if its a private registration you might still be able to find out who owns the domain by purchasing their full report) also check the IPs that the sites are hosted on, is it the same IP or in the same subnet if so then most likely they're all owned by the same company...

[TP_Marketing]

Can they still own them if the IP is different or subnets do not match?

[AndreVanKets]

Yes they can, Its just more expensive to host on different servers