SEO and whois information

Bill · 2007-11-16, 08:45 PM

The last I heard, there's a lack of evidence as to wether google (the only se to which this concern really applies) was using whois as part of it's ranking algo.

Definitely it's part of their investigative and human review toolkit, if for some reason they look at your domains manually.

The basic ranking algo can detect the interlinking, wether or not it checks and ranks with whois.

So, you're fucked coming and going.

Halfdeck · 2007-11-20, 05:59 PM

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Let's say you have different sites / domains on different webhosts with different class-c ips and you interlink them but all your domains have the same whois information. Will the search engines know that those domains are all yours and penalize you for that?

How else are they going to detect reciprocal linking?

There's no factual evidence but if I were you I would protect your whois or else remove some of the crosslinks (if you're talking about 2-3 crosslinks I wouldn't worry). Stuff like that may not lead to penalties unless your tactics are excessive but it can diminish Google's trust in your backlinks and your forward links. Personally, I don't link out from my main site to any of my lesser domains.

2007-11-16, 08:45 PM	#1
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	The last I heard, there's a lack of evidence as to wether google (the only se to which this concern really applies) was using whois as part of it's ranking algo. Definitely it's part of their investigative and human review toolkit, if for some reason they look at your domains manually. The basic ranking algo can detect the interlinking, wether or not it checks and ranks with whois. So, you're fucked coming and going.