Online Hosting and What It Tells Others About You
Thursday, July 26th, 2007The host you use for your sites can tell others a lot about your business. It can be a window that allows people like Google to look in and see all those things you would rather they didn’t know.
It’s not that long ago that Matt Cutts stood up at a Q&A session at a major search engine conference and was able to associate a very clean site he had been asked about with a bunch of spammy sites one guy happened to be running so how clear is the window Google is using to look into your business?
If you’re using a host that requires you to pay through Google Checkout then the window is probably a whole lot less opaque than you thought and you’ll find Google Gains Access to Web Hosting Financial Records something that will make you think.
