Google’s John Mueller was asked about when it makes sense to host images or other content on separate subdomains or domains. John said it makes sense if Google is having trouble crawling as much as it wants to crawl. John wrote on LinkedIn, “If Google has trouble crawling as much as it wants to crawl … Read more
Google Ads will automatically opt new accounts out of serving ads on parked domains, starting in October. A parked domain is basically a placeholder web address. It’s been registered, but typically it has little or no content and sometimes shows ads. Why we care. This update allows advertisers to avoid wasting budget on low-value ad … Read more
Google Ads sent out a notice that it is changing its Content Suitability policy for Parked Domains in Google. Google will opt out new accounts from serving ads on parked domains starting next month, October 2024. The email was posted by Hana Kobzová on PPC News and Domain Name Wire also picked it up. PPC … Read more
In a recent episode of Google’s Search Off The Record podcast, the company’s Search Relations team hinted at potential changes in how country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) are valued for SEO. This revelation came during a discussion on internationalization and hreflang implementation. The Fading Importance Of ccTLDs Gary Illyes, a senior member of Google’s Search Relations … Read more
Google’s Gary Illyes answered a question about a ranking preference given to sites that use country level domain names and explained how that compares to non-country domain names. The question occurred in the SEO Office Hours podcast. ccTLD Aka Country Code Domain Names Domain names that are specific to countries are called ccTLDs (Country Code … Read more
Since the Times Of India quadrupled its organic growth in the US in 12 months, more ccTLDs (international domains) have been spotted ranking in the US. Image Credit: Kevin Indig More international domains would make sense as Google is testing country labels indicating where the site operates. Google has also expanded Translated Results: Translated Results … Read more
Can you rank in the top 10 of Google with very few links? Not according to a new analysis published today by Internet Marketing Ninjas. It found that: Over 96% of websites ranking in the top 10 of Google had more than 1,000 backlinks from unique domains. Only 0.3% had less than 100 backlinks. Why … Read more
Google added a couple of new options to the spam reporting tool, including the new site reputation abuse and expired domain abuse, to the form. Again, Google announced these new spam policies last March, enforcing the site reputation abuse this earlier this month. I should note, the scaled content abuse policy was added to the … Read more
The topic of using hyphens in domain names is one of the oldest SEO topics we have in this space. Heck, in 2004, SEOs said there was a specific Google ranking algorithm that filtered out domains with hyphens in them (Google did not by the way) – SEOs called it the hyphen filter. More recently, … Read more
Google is sending some domain holders who were with Google Domains and who are automatically being migrated to Squarespace notices that their Search Console verification may go away. This is only if you do not host your DNS records with Google and you set up DNS verification with Google Search Console. This notice was received … Read more
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