Is your IP address neighborhood important for SEO?
- by Evgeny
Can other websites on your shared host affect the rank of your website in the Google index? (same IP address as yours, potentially malicious/low-trust content)
Can other websites on your IP class affect the rank of your website in the Google index? (different actual IP, malicious/low-trust content)
Clarification: Domain class, is what you get when you run a whois query on an IP address.
Example:
NetRange: 69.163.128.0 - 69.163.255.255
CIDR: 69.163.128.0/17
PS: Prefer answers with experience or links to trustworthy material, over speculations, assumptions and gut feelings.