Hello, Sometime ago I read one article taling about the influence in the search engine rankings when changing domain whois information. Basically, they were saying that maybe Google can check changes in the whois information (mainly in the Registrant and administrative contact), with this changes being reflected on the SE rankings. Does anyone know if this is true or ahve any kind of influence? Moreover, in case one use domain privacy does it make some influence? From what I read, they were discussing the possibility that google take in account these kind of changes or privacy and reflect them on domain SE positions. Thanks in advance for your help and support. Regards.
google checking whois information and taking that as a factor in the algorithm? how would that work?? John ranks higher than Tom? :?
Yeah I am also not sure about G taking in account the whois for SE rankings. What will that help them? If they are, hopefully my name ranks in the top 10
I could see the reasoning that a site changing ownership could drop it in the SERPs, but there are just too many legitimate reasons that whois information would be updated that assessing a penalty based on that alone would be ludicrous. I myself have a series of domains attached to different email addresses that I want to consolidate into one list one of these days. I've updated family member domains to my own info on occasion because I actually understand the various notifications that might get sent out from the registrar. You could change your name when you get married or for a number of other legitimate reasons. I haven't seen anything that would lead me to believe a change in ownership would assess a penalty - other than stripped listings in DMOZ.