WhoIs, SEO & Privacy
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Is WHOIS data used by Google as a ranking signal?
We had a website that had some bad SEO work done a while ago hence took a knock, If I use the same WHOIS data on a new site is that likely to cause an issue?
Also I don't like the idea of providing too much information for privacy reasons, so have tended to stick to general email addresses and department names rather than actual personal information. Is that a bad approach?
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Hello, my friend.
Here is a video from Matt Cutts exactly on this question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pnpg00FWJY
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