Flippa says Google Penalizes for blocked whois

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Has anyone heard this before? I think they are crazy. I've got one domain of mine blocked for a good reason (it is religious themed and I've got other adult names on my servers and I don't want them mixed somehow) and I'm trying to sell it on Flippa and Flippa gives this big warning that Google may be penalizing it because I have the whois blocked.

Yet I'm #1 on Google for my main keyword beating out some pretty stiff competition from huge sites on the topic. Has anyone heard of this Google penalty before?:confused:
#search engine optimization #blocked #flippa #google #penalizes #whois
  • do you have a link to this?

    i've never heard of it
  • Right here.
    https://flippa.com/help/blocked-whois-warning
  • There is your proof right there.

    I also don't believe it's true. The mysterious google algorithm leads to some kooky SEO ideas.
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    • Pretty much what I was thinking.
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  • I've been doing SEO for other people, and my own sites for nearly 3 years and this is the first I've heard of such a penalty.

    Thanks for sharing. I'll do some digging around to see what I can come up with.

    ~Russ
  • I own many domains and about a year ago, I bought some ( 50 or 60 ) through GoDaddy and they give privacy for free in some cases, which I accepted.

    These domains are mostly just WP sites that I have never even built up to finish. They are mostly local in nature and they all rank high in search as of today for the keywords.

    I say it's complete BS.

    Enterpryzman
  • I've heard of this quite often actually. I think the only reason to ever worry about it is if they do a secondary analysis on your site. So if you spam out backlinks for 10 of your sites, and it all has the same whois info, you will be penalized. If there is no whois info then you will be penalized.

    Anyway, that is the theory behind it. Don't hold that to be truth, you know how people claim they have been banned or deindexed from google when there site is 1 month old and they only build 5 links a day.
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    • Hi iAmNameLess,

      Are you sure about this? I have been in this business for many years and have never seen anything that suggests your assertion is true.

      For one, search engines have no way to know where the spam originated from or who originated the spam, therefore they have no way to know who, or which website should be penalized.

      Since they have absolutely no way to know the origin of the spam, how would whois data play a role? If they assumed all spam originates from the target of said spam it would be a reliable method of targeting your competitors for penalties. Trust me, that doesn't work.

      From my experience the only web pages that get punished for spam are the web pages that allow the spam to be posted and remain on the page. Those pages seem to have the trust reduced which devalues those backlinks.
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  • Flippa has finally flipped!

    I would not use them.
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    Flippa says Google Penalizes for blocked whois

    Has anyone heard this before? I think they are crazy. I've got one domain of mine blocked for a good reason (it is religious themed and I've got other adult names on my servers and I don't want them mixed somehow) and I'm trying to sell it on Flippa and Flippa gives this big warning that Google may be penalizing it because I have the whois blocked. Yet I'm #1 on Google for my main keyword beating out some pretty stiff competition from huge sites on the topic. Has anyone heard of this Google penalty before?:confused: