Group gives no definitive answers about choosing top level domains. This month's Search Off the Record, a podcast by Google's Search Relations team, is all about your choice of top level domain name. The show starts by butchering what top level ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Google adds site names on mobile search
· ServicesSite names are now prominently featured in search results. Google continuously plays around with how it displays search results. Sometimes it messes around with the URL, either truncating it or removing it altogether. Today, it announced that ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Google’s “helpful content” update should help niche websites
· UncategorizedAn update to Google's search results should help sites that truly know their topics and write for a specific audience. Next week, Google is releasing what it calls a "helpful content" update. It seeks to reward good content at the expense of that ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
January’s top domain name news stories
· UncategorizedLooking back at last month in domains. There was a lot of news in the domain name industry last month. Here's a look at the top five posts on Domain Name Wire ranked by the number of pageviews. 1. This company's domain name is a ten digit ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Those favicons in Google search results? Maybe not forever
· UncategorizedGoogle backtracks and tests favicon-less search results pages. Last month, Google changed its desktop search results to look more like its mobile search results. The big difference was adding favicons to the results. (The desktop results also ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Google’s new search results pages: love it or hate it?
· ServicesDesktop results still show the domain name but mobile results don't. Google recently changed its desktop search results to look more like its mobile search results. This includes showing the site's favicon, second level and top level domain, title, ... Continue Reading18 Comments
Google adds fresher data to Google Search Console
· ServicesData now available in less than a day. Remember the good old days when you could see the actual search terms people typed to find your website? In real-time? Google took that away many years ago, and then gave us Google Webmaster Central, later ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Google goes mobile-first on new domain names
· UncategorizedGooglebot will index the mobile version on new sites. Registering a new domain name to launch a website? Make sure the content works well on mobile devices. Google announced today that any new sites/domain names it indexes will be on a ... Continue Reading1 Comment
“Domain Name” is a pay-to-play search term on Google
· Domain RegistrarsJust about everything above-the-fold is ads. For all of Google's talk about how website owners need to provide good content above the fold, not just ads, Google.com has become a bunch of ads. Today I was searching for "domain name" (no quotes) and this ... Continue Reading9 Comments
Google no longer bolding keywords in domain names
· UncategorizedAnother blow to domain names in search. Domain names and URLs that contain terms people search for on Google have long been thought to have some sort of advantage. For a while, Google seemed to give preference to "exact match domains". Then it ... Continue Reading10 Comments
