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.

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. I’ve been working online ...

Google's John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that he would personally go with a traditional TLD (i.e., .com) even if it means having to put a hyphen in the domain name. This is instead of picking a ...

Google has introduced a new top-level domain for the web to use. It’s .ing, and it seems it exists primarily to challenge the internet and its capacity for creativity. I must admit, I’m struggl.ing to ...

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 ...

Google has once again updated the relatively new documentation around Site Names in Google Search, this time to clarify that www and m-dot prefixes for domain names are generally considered root ...

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 ...

When was the last time you did a Google search? Very recently, right? What about a search on Yahoo!, DuckDuckGo or Bing? On Aug. 5, Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of ...

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Having a relevant domain name greatly increases the business’s credibility, boosts SEO and makes it super easy for potential customers to find the business. Stop treating your domain like an ...