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
What Is a Referring Domain? A referring domain is any website that links back to your website. Hence the name of those kinds of links: backlinks. The website linking to yours is the referring domain. The individual link (or links) the website uses to link to you are the backlinks. People often get referring domains … Read more
See the Market from a New Angle Anna KravetsProduct Marketing Manager at Serpstat If someone offered you a report with one million top domains in the USA, divided by market categories with six SEO metrics, would you use it? Such a report would save you time collecting data, forming it into a report, adding metrics, … Read more
Google announced the availability of the new dot ING top level domain that allows users to register domains that indicate verbs, nouns and adjectives that end with the ing suffix. ING Top Level Domain (TLD) A top level domain (TLD) is the last part of the domain name, like .com, .org, etc. The newest version, … Read more
There’s a lot that can go wrong on a website, and every site is going to have some issues to fix. We looked at 1,002,165 domains to find the most common technical SEO issues. Keep reading to see what we found. The 15 most common technical SEO issues These are the issues flagged the most across the … Read more
We ran the largest hreflang study ever, nearly 10X larger than any other study. In total, we looked at issues on 374,756 different domains that used hreflang tags. Our findings show that 67% of them have at least one issue. Let’s look at the most common issues you should actually care about. 56.3% have pages missing x-default … Read more
In a Google SEO Office hours session, Google’s Gary Illyes answered the question about whether there was a downside to using the .AI domain since it’s associated with the Caribbean island of Anguilla. His answer was kind of surprising. The Difference Between a gTLD and a ccTLD There are two kinds of domain names. There … Read more
I have seen some folks in the SEO industry suggest that there will be some sort of search ranking and SEO impact with the sale of Google Domains to Squarespace. I just wanted to clarify this sale should have zero impact on your Google Search rankings or SEO efforts. Some think that when Google sells … Read more
![Disavowing The Disavow Tool [Case Study] – How a site owner finally removed a disavow file with 15K+ domains, stopped continually disavowing links, and surged back from the dead](https://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/06/disavow-case-study-lg.jpg)
There aren’t many topics in SEO as controversial as disavowing links. Ever since Google introduced the ability to disavow links, there has been a ton of confusion about how to use the disavow tool, what types of links should be disavowed, when to ignore the disavow tool altogether, and more. Then add third-party tools that … Read more
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