Change of Domain registration Whois to increase value of links
seo_guy wrote:Hi! I have 9 new sites that i just built and launched about a month ago. I registered all the domains for them and listed my info under the Whois on all sites. I pointed a link from each of these new sites to an old domain of mine that i want to give a boost in page rank. I just found out that because it's the same Whois info on all the sites that Google can see that and has reduced the power of those links because Google thinks all domains are owned by the same person. If i change the Whois on each site to the unique name, address, email and phone number of my associates that are managing the sites so that all whois info on each site is different, will it increase the page rank that each passes to my old domain that i want to give a boost in page rank to? I used the same credit card to purchase all the domain names and i know Google can see this but since it looks like ownership has changed will it make a difference in page rank passed? The sites are brand new and don't have any links built to them yet so i don't mind if the ranking on them drops a little because of domain ownership change. Will this look fishy to Google? I don't want to hurt the old domain that i'm trying to boost rank to by looking spammy. The new sites only have one link on them pointing to the old site and not to each other. The old site doesn't link back to any of the new sites. Hope this isn't too confusing. Thanks in advance!
You're correct that there are issues with having sites connected to each other via registration information used for link building. It is very difficult to hide a connection like this from Google. I am quite positive that Google will retain the information of who used to control each domain, which is going to work against you. The credit card issue is difficult to fix, too. You'd also need to host each site on a completely different C Class IP from all the others, and make sure that each site links to a completely separate set of sites to each other. But perhaps with some overlap. What I am trying to il**Banned Word**rate here is that each site has to look as random and dissimilar to each other as possible.
It is incredibly difficult to mimick the natural way links and websites behave on the web if you control all the domains. As such, it is hard to hide such associations from Google, because it looks quite closely at linking patterns as well as registration, hosting and payment information. It is unlikely that this will hurt your old domain, but the effect you get from doing it may not be worth the effort if you don't disguise the sites' network connection well enough.
