It's a neat idea that will never be adopted by large search engines. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent #10,764,245 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for "Domain name determination". The idea behind the patent is that a ... Continue Reading1 Comment
How to clean up bad links on your website
· UncategorizedIt's not an easy process. Domain Name Wire is 15 years old and has over 12,000 posts. With so many posts, and so many of them years old, it makes sense that a lot of links included in posts are no longer valid. Services I've written about have ... Continue Reading3 Comments
SEO from Expired Domains – DNW Podcast #258
· PodcastsHow to leverage the search engine value of expired domains. Building links and authority for a new website is hard but there’s a way to skip a lot of the work. Today’s guest, Sean Markey, explains how to find expired domains and turn them into ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Google adds Discover data to Search Console
· UncategorizedWebsite owners can now see how much traffic they get from Discover. Google has added data from Google Discover to its Search Console. This means website owners can now see how much traffic they are getting from Discover. Discover is essentially ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Google is rolling out mobile-first indexing
· ServicesMobile version of websites will increasingly be indexed instead of desktop versions. Google is rolling out mobile-first indexing more broadly for its search index. This means that Google will crawl a site's mobile website content for indexing rather ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
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
Study shows that new TLDs can rank like other TLDs, but not much else
· UncategorizedStudy provides little more than anecdotal evidence. You're going to see some headlines today about an SEO study commissioned by The Domain Name Association (DNA). Some of these headlines might suggest that new top level domain names get some sort of ... Continue Reading14 Comments
Google coughs over “New-TLDs-as-SEO-boost” claims
· UncategorizedGoogle's John Mueller chimes in (again) on claims about new TLDs helping search engine rankings. New top level domain company Rightside has been promoting the apparent search engine benefits of new top level domain names lately. It is promoting a case ... Continue Reading17 Comments
Google Domains pitches new TLDs with Q&A post
· Domain RegistrarsSee a new TLD in action by searching for "coffee club", company suggests. It's not from Google's search team, but a new blog post today from Google Domains seeks to clear up any misunderstanding about new domain names and search. The post answers ... Continue Reading8 Comments
HomeAdvisor’s costly name change is paying off
· UncategorizedHomeAdvisor spent a lot of money on its rebrand, and saw a sharp drop in traffic initially, but it has paid off. A couple weeks ago Quebec announced a decision to opt-out of switching its web presence over to the new .quebec domain name, citing a price ... Continue Reading6 Comments
