In the latest Ask Google Webmasters video, a question was featured about keyword-based top-level domains (TLDs). John Mueller said in the video there aren’t any benefits from featuring a keyword in domain names when someone posed this question:
Does a .jobs domain improve ranking in Google for jobs?
It was always going to be a tough job to extricate the UK from the EU and as Brexit deadlines come and go, so it is proving to be. But how will Brexit affect SEO?
The internet has come a long way since its humble beginnings. There was once only one website dedicated to explaining the World Wide Web project. The computer it was hosted on was in CERN and it had a hand-written sticker on it saying “This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!”
Read moreWe’ve been used to the same TLDs (top level domains) for a while now, everynow and then a drip of new TLDs has come onto the market however they’ve not had a massive impact.
From an SEO point of view those original national level TLDs have remained the most important types of domains with the .com; .co.uk and we’ll all know the other ones that are (or include) .gov, .biz, .info, .net, .org etc Read more
Everynow and then I get new options of TLDs popping up in my 123 reg account and this time it was .gb.net TLDs. I thought I’d buy one and see if it’s any good for SEO. Read more
If you’re looking to build a new website you’ll want to get something that is brandable but also give your users some idea of what the website is all about. One of the best ways to go about this is by choosing a keyword and then adding a suffix to the end of it. Read more
If you’ve been following the GrowTraffic blog you’ll have seen a post back in November about the use of exact match domains to get a better place in the rankings and how Google was indicating this loophole / benefit will be phased out. Interestingly, new research has been released by the Open Algorithm Project (Domain Name SEO). Read more
I’m in the process of building a microsite for a client that would like me to do some work for them. Our agreement hasn’t actually started yet however when I looked into this area I thought it was worth me building the site in advance to take advantage of what looks to be a new market / new marketing opportunity. Read more
So I’ve been trying to get a site to rank for the terms Cross Cut Office Shredders and Cross Cut Office Shredder and I’ve been having a bit of fun and games with it at the moment. I am therefore going to use this blog to vent some of my thoughts and ideas about what’s happening with the rankings there. Read more
Google quietly announced that it was preparing to turn down the algorithm so as not to give so much weight to exact match domains. This could have a significant impact on the way web marketing is done.
