• Graywolf's SEO Blog, Thursday, August 13, 2009 3:15 PM

Does Google know what Web sites you own? Affiliates who began building and publishing Web sites before 2000, likely operated with a different set of rules and standards. They likely built and developed isolated pockets on the Web, and tried hard to keep Google from knowing they were associated with other affiliates, according to Michael Gray.

So, Gray set out to discover what methods Google uses to gather information about who owns what Web sites. He writes that Google has never answered that question, but the best answer comes from a guest post by Nick Wilsdon on Jim Boykin's blog. Why is this important? With Google's authority, the proliferation of social Web sites, and the publicizing of social graphs, keeping clean separated from dirty sites is now more important than ever, he writes.

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