Thread: Whois Can Work Against You?

We all know that building a link farm in order to boost your site's PR can get you penalized but I have heard that Google

also checks Whois info, and even if you linked sites that are not from the same C block IP the same Whois can be considered

as link farming. Is there any truth to it?

Originally Posted by Hajoless

We all know that building a link farm in order to boost your site's PR can get you penalized but I have heard that Google

also checks Whois info, and even if you linked sites that are not from the same C block IP the same Whois can be considered

as link farming. Is there any truth to it?

Yes it is, Google is domain registrar, which means that they have access to all data about your domains...
That is why I always use fake names and other fake personal info for my network of sites for SEO purpose.
This is great tool to generate fake details:
Generate a Random Name - Fake Name Generator

As I told it many times before...

try always using different names, emails..

also dont ever use the same email provider... try to randomly it: hotmail, yahoo, gmail ...

Originally Posted by seobunny

As I told it many times before...

try always using different names, emails..

also dont ever use the same email provider... try to randomly it: hotmail, yahoo, gmail ...

The best and painless practice is to use [email protected] or [email protected], etc...

ICANN can take the domain back if they find domain details are fake. So need to use working details even if those are different emails and names. There need to be working phone number. No need to bother if domain is not one of your money sites but better consider these if your domain names are valuable. I know this is one area aggressive competitors strike.

Originally Posted by seobunny

As I told it many times before...

try always using different names, emails..

also dont ever use the same email provider... try to randomly it: hotmail, yahoo, gmail ...

Originally Posted by Nemanja

Yes it is, Google is domain registrar, which means that they have access to all data about your domains...
That is why I always use fake names and other fake personal info for my network of sites for SEO purpose.
This is great tool to generate fake details:
Generate a Random Name - Fake Name Generator

this is kinda good piece of information.
I didn't know about this before. so according to you, a person has to use fake info about him/her self when registering domains for seo purposes.

so eventhough we use whois protection services, google can still dig up our info?

Originally Posted by rain22

this is kinda good piece of information.
I didn't know about this before. so according to you, a person has to use fake info about him/her self when registering domains for seo purposes.

I don+t know about you but I'm using it all the time and also none of my domains where ever canceled in many years being online..

Originally Posted by franberries

so eventhough we use whois protection services, google can still dig up our info?

It looks like that

i just honest to myself when registering domain how about if someone have same shared hosting with me? if i link to him, can it be considered as link farm too?

Originally Posted by franberries

i just honest to myself when registering domain how about if someone have same shared hosting with me? if i link to him, can it be considered as link farm too?

It might be, but these are now details from google algos that we possible can't know, like when and after how many links from same shared C class IP hosting + some more details is considering link manipulation...

This is true as it was happened to a my friend as Google has banned all of his sites because they are from same person and personal details like number, email ( Everything is same). He was using these sites for interlinking to his some main sites and eventually Google has slapped on him. The better idea is what Namanja suggest above so i don't repeat that. However i will add that at least phone number and address must be some what which can be verified when needed? I am doing this practice since long and nothing was happened to my sites.