How many newsletters do you get a day with nearly every one telling you what to do to "double", "triple or some other "multiple" your traffic? Certainly more than you subscribe to. One of the best tips I found came from my webhost about 2 years ago in the form of advertising a new service for multiple Cname hosting at an average cost of $5 per month per domain. YEAH, I'm gonna believe that. Well, after trying it, they had the right idea and the traffic rolled in. It was the one secret that was never shared except with friends until now but was not believed. It was reinforced in a video by Google's Matt Cutts on YouTube that was in my inbox today from WebProNews, a newsletter that at has the crediblity to at least experiment with. Using multiple "C" names, or completely different IP addresses for each site, makes them appear to be in different places on different servers and not owned by the same company but possibly different webmasters linking to each other.
How to do it without breaking the bank? Well, hosting with multiple "C" names cost about $125 a month for 25 different IPs. That's $5 a site assumming you are promoting only one niche, otherwise you can stack niche sites with Addon Domains and save a bit, but at $5 per IP address, you could get away cheaper hosting with cheap servers. The downside, well, c'mon, you have 25 hosts with who knows what kind of restrictions. If you still use a PERL script for simple tracking and are stuck in your ways about the thing and love it TOO much, a lot of places won't allow cgi, and if you use free hosting, it's very hard to find one that allows cgi or perl. Free hosts will do the trick though, the goal is having your sites in different locations so you don't appear to own a link farm. Link Farms are like feed lots to Google, they stink.
The "Being Too Smart" mentioned in the title refers to rushing to move domains and sites then deleting the files off one server only to later lose the multiple ip hosting and going another direction without having backups the sites in more than one place. Fortunately, most the sites were still on the reseller account and the files were recovered through backups then uploaded to new servers. Took a hit in the wallet over that but we're back in the game again!