Comments on: Does Google use Analytics accounts to link SEO domain ownership?

By: Daniel Martin

Daniel Martin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:14:46 +0000

I've never been stupid enough to have my own site under the same google analytics account. – Hell so far I've avoided it entirely. (We really need a server-side alternative anyway!)

But at a previous employer (who's original website was very powerful) I created new websites and tracked them with the same analytics account. The new sites still saw a massive boost after receiving a link from the strong site. But I couldn't say whether the links power was reduced at all. The sites were on different but adjacent (same class C) IPs BTW.

By: Ash Nallawalla

Ash Nallawalla — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:43:09 +0000

Webmaster Tools is another way to identify a common owner, although I know SEO companies who load their client sites in a GWT or GA account. I have two of my non-technical friend’s sites under my GA account.

Similarly, web devs host their client sites on their own server – an algo would not know that the sites are not owned by one person.

All this speculation may be true in a manual audit by Matt Cutts’ team, but I doubt if the ranking algo would check GA as a routine step.