Comments on: SMX Video – Does Google’s Algorithm Consider Your Domain Ownership?

By: SEMpdx Board Member Scott Hendison Interviewed By Andy Beal (Video) | SEMpdx Blog

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:25:39 +0000

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By: lourdes

lourdes — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:43:33 +0000

I have been reading about that now for a couple of weeks. Is it true that Google Almighty changed its sacred algorithms again?

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Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:50:54 +0000

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By: Owen Cutajar

Owen Cutajar — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:39:26 +0000

Thing about domain ownership is that services like GoDaddy are pushing the whole “register your domain anonymously so people don’t bug you with spam” idea. So there’s no guarantee that domain ownership contains anything valuable. My money’s on them not checking it.

By: Frederick Townes

Frederick Townes — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:38:59 +0000

Andy, that’s exactly what I was going to say. And with the services like domaintools.com out there which allow us webmasters to do quite a bit of investigation it’s no doubt that google has a lot of data at it’s disposal algorithmically, which I think ultimately has to only amount to tipping off spam sites. I say this because we proxy hundreds of domains for our clients and we’d definitely know if our proxy ownership were impacting their bottom line.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:48:18 +0000

I wouldn’t panic. I would imagine they’re not actively checking the domain names owned by every webmaster. However, seeing as it was one of the first things Matt looked at, when doing a site review, I would imagine they use it as an indicator for any site already flagged for spam.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:16:39 +0000

Hmm never thought about this until now. Wonder if I should cancel some of my domain names??

By: Frank Antonellis

Frank Antonellis — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:30:35 +0000

Out of curiousity, was there anyone who attended this session that had a different or the same take on Matt Cutt’s reaction to Scott’s question? I wasn’t there so it would be interesting to know if other attendees had the same impression.

By: SEOrefugee

SEOrefugee — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:38:09 +0000

I don’t really see how it’s any of Google’s business really. I mean rank the site on the site’s merits. If I have the most useful site in the world but also run 100 other shady sites, how does it help Google’s users (and remember, it’s all about the users right?) for Google to penalize my one good site?

Great video quality Andy and team but the audio was rough. Probably didn’t help that it was crowded and probably noisy but it was pretty shrill at points.

By: Mark Barrera

Mark Barrera — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:31:44 +0000

It seems too easy to register under different names so this shouldn’t be a problem.

So if a bad domain can hurt your other domains, can a great one help them out?

By: dnn

dnn — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:28:04 +0000

I have a few domains, i wonder the answer.

By: Brian Chappell

Brian Chappell — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:20:21 +0000

Yea I agree with Scott. I can’t imagine google not assessing whether you own other domains, in some fashion or another, and then using that data algorithmically.

Matt Cutts: “Yea we just want to know the web saviness of webmasters”

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Is he serious?