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Google’s John Mueller “Your domain name is never going to make or break your SEO”

February 16, 2024 by Raymond Hackney

John Mueller from Google had conducted a chat on Mastodon, there was a question that was domain name related. An #seo question from the X-Twitter world: In the domain name, is the use of dash ( – ) recommended or not? Mueller gives a few points and ends the first reply with “Your domain name […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, Google, SEO

Did Google acquire Duet.ai for $300K?

January 23, 2024 by Raymond Hackney

There is a report on DN.com that Google acquired .Duet.ai for $300K. Google announced on December 14, 2023, the launch of Duet AI for Developers, a tool designed for both developer-oriented Duet AI and Duet AI in secure operations. It was a Chinese investor who made the sale. Google workspace has more information on Duet.ai. […]

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Google’s John Mueller on Keyword-Keyword domains

February 28, 2023 by Raymond Hackney

Google’s SEO search advocate John Mueller left a comment on Reddit to someone thinking about spending $2K on a domain name. I’m not a fan of keyword-keyword domains, but YMMV. Random thoughts: Tip of the cap to Lox

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Google, Keyword Research

Websites can go into a state of limbo due to Google algorithm bug

November 29, 2021 by Raymond Hackney

Roger Montti published a piece over at SearchEngineJournal.com with regards to a Google bug that leaves websites in a state of limbo. It’s funny because someone on Thanksgiving was telling me they could not get their website to rank, even for their own domain name. In a Google Office-hours hangout, John Mueller answered a question […]

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Filed Under: Google, Search Engines, SEO

15 things people think help them rank with Google but do not

April 25, 2021 by Raymond Hackney

Ryan Jones published an article that delved into things people think matter in relation to ranking in Google but really don’t. Some of these things I see mentioned on Namepros and social media. Jones goes onto list 15 things. I have heard a few people swear by the fact that bounce rate and time on […]

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Want to remove comments from your blog? Google Says it may impact search rankings

February 8, 2021 by Raymond Hackney

For those who are running blogs as a part of their online business some news came out today with regards to comments. Matt Southern over at SearchEngineJournal.com published a piece a couple of hours ago with regard to comment removal and search rankings. John Mueller from Google answered a question in a Hangout. The participant […]

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Google to add More Info About Domains in Search Results

February 3, 2021 by Raymond Hackney

Matt Southern published a piece on SearchEngineJournal.com on Google providing more info about domain names in the search results. Tapping on the icon will pull up a card from the bottom of the screen with additional pieces of information about the search result. The article goes on to say that Google is taking info from […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, domaining news, Google

That old domain with all the backlinks might have a legacy domain penalty

December 29, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Over the past couple years we have seen a greater interest in buying old domain names for their SEO/Authority value. I had a friend mention to me over the weekend that he bought a name for that very reason, that just can’t seem to rank. I mentioned to him an article I read a few […]

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Buyer of ModernComputing.com was Google

December 12, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Mike Mann announced the sale of ModernComputing.com at the end of October. He bought the domain name for $2,144 in 2008. The sale price was $53,900. The name is now redirecting to this page. The buyer of the name was indeed Google. The Modern Computing Alliance is a group of industry-leading companies united by one […]

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Google’s John Mueller on the future of SEO

October 20, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

SearchEngineJournal.com published an article on Google’s John Mueller and his thoughts on the future of SEO. I was most interested in the predictions for the future. That AMP is not going away. Accelerated Mobile Pages are always stirs emotions. If you Google AMP Sucks, you will find many articles of those voicing their displeasure. From […]

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