potentialgeek - 2:39 pm on Dec 4, 2008 (gmt 0)

Whois privacy services are usually well-labeled. Google could easily distinguish between whois privacy and an individual/corporation. Its patent on this topic says it can devalue links if the content of the site page is different from the old links.

You should get a whois service that automatically renews whois privacy. Enom, for example, has a setting to auto renew privacy 30 days before the domain expires.

On the topic of Google and whois, one site in my sector that is #2 in Google for a very competitive keyword uses whois privacy.

I suspect there are fewer potential problems wrt whois privacy related to Google than some of us might imagine. It's one of the best anti-spam services I ever got.

p/g