Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about why people don’t use hyphens with domains and if there was something to be concerned about that they were missing. Domain Names With Hyphens For SEO I’ve been working online for 25 years and I remember when using hyphens in domains was something that affiliates did … Read more
Google might be having some weird bug with XML sitemap files that have hyphens within the final name. So if your sitemap file name is /sitemap-10.xml it will trigger a “couldn’t fetch” error, but using /sitemap10.xml with the same exact file will not trigger any errors. This error shows up in the Google Search Console … Read more
In a recent discussion on Reddit, a user inquired about the advantages of using keyword domain names for SEO to improve visibility for a specific phrase. The user shared an example of utilizing a domain like “swimsuits.com” for selling swimsuits, a keyword with over 10,000 monthly searches in their country. John Mueller, Google’s Search Advocate, … Read more
Did you know that Google Search checks about four billion host names each and every day for robots.txt purposes? Gary Illyes said in the December Search Off The Record podcast “we have about four billion host names that we check every single day for robots.txt.” He said this at the 20:31 mark in the video. … Read more
Last week we reported that the Google site names issues, according to Google, have massively dropped off, after the last big upgrade to site names in Google Search. Well, that might not be the case for the Google news tab. To be fair, I suspect the news tab may not be using the Site names … Read more
Google announced that Site names now work in all languages, not just English, French, Japanese, and German. That was really the only change Google announced with Site names yesterday – so there you have it. Google said, “Today, we’re happy to announce that site names are now available in all languages where Google Search is … Read more
Google now supports Site names across all languages after launching it initially for English, French, German, and Japanese languages only. Google wrote, “Today, we’re happy to announce that site names are now available in all languages where Google Search is available, on both mobile and desktop.” Site names. Site names are the title and name of … Read more
Google News, the portal, seems to be testing displaying the author name below the publication name in the article card snippet interface. Google recently tested this for Google Discover stories and Top Stories in Google Search. Now Google is testing it for articles listing on Google News at news.google.com. Shalom Goodman shared an example of … Read more
Google published updates to the site names system, with expanded support for subdomains on all devices in English, French, German, and Japanese. We’ve expanded support for subdomains and compiled more information on how site names work in Search. Find out more in the blog post at https://t.co/qo2iP0VH67 and in our documentation at https://t.co/AGkfEeHDSU #google #seo … Read more
It looks like Google is testing placing author names in the top stories carousel within the mobile search results. I believe Google had this at some point before, but I have not seen author names in this feature in a long time. Kamlesh Shukla spotted this on Twitter, he works at the Times Of India … Read more
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