WhoIs, SEO & Privacy

[seoman10]

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?

[DmitriiK]

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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