Google's Search Relations Team advises that domain name choices should prioritize long-term branding over keyword-centric SEO strategies. Keywords in domain names don't impact Google search rankings.

In the August edition of Google’s SEO office-hours Q&A video, John Mueller, Senior Search Analyst at Google, tackled a unique question about domain expiration and Search Console data. The question ...

Make sure to watch your Google search results to see if this impacts the canonical URL Google shows in its search results. Google announced it is no longer supporting the preferred domain setting in ...

Google's Gary Illyes confirmed that Google does look at domain name records for discovery of new domains to include in the Google Search Index. He said this at the 9:40 mark into yesterday's Search ...

Google Domains is a quick and simple way to get a jumpstart on building your website, but now the company will soon leave that business. Today, Squarespace announced that it will acquire approximately ...

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Google has updated its help documentation to specify that Google Search now considers .ai domain names as a generic top-level domain, such as a .com, .org and others. Google posted the update over ...

Roger Montti at Search Engine Journal published a back and forth on X between an SEO consultant and John Mueller of Google. “Does the age of a domain name impact Google search rankings?” Mueller first ...

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Following Squarespace’s acquisition of Google Domains last year, the company best known for its website builder is starting to take over controls of domains that customers purchased from Google. Since ...