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Where does your anchor text come from?

It's no secret that having links from lots of different web sites is important. There's an argument that the IP address of each web site also plays a role. For example if I have ten domains (all linked to each other) under one hosting package (which means they share the same IP) I get a little boost. Take the same domains and put each one on a different host and I get a bigger boost. There is some evidence to support this claim in the form of a few examples, but a more sytematic test would be nice. There's another discussion on the same forum about different IPs.

I'm always talking about anchor text, and I see competitors with 30,000 pages indexed beating my 800 or so pages. I figure the anchor text from those 29,000 pages is what's killing me. I'm certain that's part of it, but the IP addresses of incoming links may play a bigger role than I thought while links from different domains may play a minor role if they come from a common IP.