WHOIS Protection

[Toby]

Originally Posted by SheepGuy

Why would anyone possibly use a PO Box for SEO reasons?

Some believe that Google discredits back links from sites owned by the same entity (IP range, physical address, etc.)

IMO, it's just voodoo SEO



Another point re: WHOIS privacy. Changing existing domains to private will not fully hide the identity of the owner. Anyone with an account at a WHOIS service that provides registration history lookups will still see the old non-private information.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Toby

Some believe that Google discredits back links from sites owned by the same entity (IP range, physical address, etc.).
IMO, it's just voodoo SEO.

I understand that Google has one algorithm whose only
function is to laugh at attempts to hide things from Google.
I believe it has an icon that looks something like this...