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i dont think it would negatively affect your site otherwise seo professionals wouldnt be submitting their articles or running article sites
the best performing pages that i have are long pages both PR, SERPS and conversion wise
change of ip address should have no change! i noticed a little disruption for a day or so but things settled down to normal when i did it a month...
last update took ages to settle down!
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