(Entry was posted by Ryan Loga on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 03/15/2018).

Does domain privacy have an impact on SEO?

Domain Privacy Does this have an impact on SEO, one way or the other? Thanks!

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Alan Bleiweiss: Create a PBN. Don`t use privacy on any of the domains. See what happens. ! ðŸ˜œ okay don`t do that. I was being a wise guy, because I just finished a "review" audit of a development site where they were supposed to FIX the issues I found in my original audit, yet where they only fixed some, and made many other things much worse! Sorry.
Alan Bleiweiss: To answer your question, if you are not doing anything toxic from a search engine guidelines perspective, there`s no reason to hide domain ownership. Conversely, if you don`t privatize your info, you`ll be spammed until you die. No positive or negative impact from an SEO perspective.
Doc Sheldon: If you`re hiding some behavior, privacy can be handy. Just realize that Google is a registrar, too... so when it comes to them, there IS no registration privacy. You can keep your identity secret from your competitors, though. ;) But to answer your question, there`s no impact from an SEO standpoint, either way.