Over on Reddit, a question was posed to Google, asking how Google would rank various keyword-based domains, and the ranking benefits of using the keywords in the domain name: “How would Google rank the following domains: web-design.com, web.design, web-design.net?” Mueller said that there isn’t any SEO bonus for keywords in the domain, giving reasons why …

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Recently, Google has released a video describing the SEO impact of making changes to the URL structure of your site. In the video, John Mueller of Google said that when you make changes to the URL structure of your website, search engines don’t typically get updated instantly. He said that these changes are “not that …

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In the following episode of AskGooglebot, Google’s John Mueller tells us the reason why URL length doesn’t affect rankings in search. But, he describes how shorter URLs are preferred when indexing multiple copies of a page on your website.

What is the difference between absolute and relative URLs? The big difference is that absolute URLs will always include the domain name of the website with http://www. Relative links show the pat to the file or refer to the file itself, which is useful because it can transfer a user from point to point within …

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If you’ve been surfing the internet for long enough, I’m sure you’ve noticed a bit of a difference in the URL of websites. some might say https://www.example.com, while others might say https://example.com. For more explanation, A non-www domain is usually referred to as a naked domain. Www domains act as a hostname and can have …

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In a recent AskGoogleBot video, John Mueller talks about how using lowercase and uppercase letters in a URL can affect search engine crawling and canonicalization.

So, you just set up your brand new business, and you want to have an accompanying business to go along with it? All you need to do is register it as a new domain! But there could be a slight problem – what if the .com website name has already been taken? Of course, this …

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In an announcement, GoDaddy is acquiring Neustar’s registry business that oversees level domains like .biz, .co, .in, .nyc and .us. This puts GoDaddy in charge of those domains. From this point on, domain name registrars will be paying GoDaddy the wholesale price for registering those domains for thier customers. This business will now be called …

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According to Google, hosting content in a subdomain or subfolder of another entity’s site isn’t against its guidelines, but that it’s improving is systems to recognize that content and treat it accordingly. This came from the Google Webmasters Twitter account on August 14. Here is what the tweet said: “We’ve been asked if third-parties can host content …

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Over the past decade, deregulation has been a stateside trend, but the 28 member of the European Union are gearing up for a massive increase in regulations around data privacy in the form of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and this will be a big deal across the pond as well. For a short …

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