Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'domains'

There is a large thread at the Bing Community on the topic of how Bing treats domain names. There are some people that feel that Bing's algorithm weighs too heavily on words in a domain name. Cleo started the thread,...

Posted on July 13, 2009 8:49 AM

Sometimes we forget or forget to look after basic SEO topics. The other day, I caught one of my programmers allowing both capitalized URLs and lowercase URLs result in having the same destination page. Let's take Twitter as an example,...

Posted on March 9, 2009 8:10 AM

A Google Webmaster Help thread points out an interesting bug of some sort in Google. A webmaster asks about a particular site that seems to have flooded Google with tons and tons of subdomains. Since the site is already "outed,"...

Posted on January 2, 2009 8:15 AM

The topic of does domain registration impact your search engine rankings is nothing new. We have covered this topic here at least a handful of times, especially since Google became a registrar. But a new WebmasterWorld thread has several case...

Posted on December 8, 2008 8:14 AM

Daniel Scocco has written a really great blog post at Daily Blog Tips of the importance of domain names--that length and quality do matter. After looking at the Alexa top 250 sites (and the "last 250 sites on the front...

Posted on August 20, 2008 9:49 AM

A Google Groups thread shares an interesting insight in how Google may interpret a site's language. A webmaster asked Google why a site with no pages in Spanish is being interpreted as a Spanish site in Google. The site in...

Posted on June 13, 2008 8:43 AM

A Google Groups thread has discussion about the questions one webmaster has in regards to his country-coded top-level domain (ccTLD), moonri.se. There are a couple interesting points we can learn from this thread. (1) As the Google help document states,...

Posted on June 12, 2008 7:03 AM

Google has finally written a formal post at the Google Webmaster Central blog named Best practices when moving your site. It honestly is a nice place to send a client or webmaster when the question comes up. Does it give...

Posted on April 17, 2008 7:33 AM

Time and time again, we see complaints form advertisers and searchers that Google's domain park program is costing them time and money. Google's domain park is a way for domainers to monetize their inactive domains, by placing Google ads on...

Posted on January 25, 2008 7:49 AM

Baidu, the Google of China, reportedly has received approval from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) to become a domain name registrar. Why do we care? Remember when Google became a domain registrar in January 2005? We, SEOs, did...

Posted on January 18, 2008 7:28 AM

Link building is a crucial aspect for SEO. SEOs have and continue to try everything to build quality links quickly for their sites and their clients. Often, the topic of buying a an expired domain - to leverage the links...

Posted on January 15, 2008 7:46 AM

WebmasterWorld administrator tedster has informed us that Google will be treating subdomains like they treat folders on a site. In short, he said, Matt Cutts said Google will roll out in a few weeks a new filter to make sure...

Posted on December 7, 2007 7:40 AM

Search Engine Strategies San Jose Contextual Track: Domaining and Address Bar-Driven Traffic Speakers: (Moderator) Detlev Johnson, VP, Director of Consulting, Position Technologies Jon Lisbin, Chief Strategist, Point It Andrew Beckman, President, SearchAdNetwork Monte Cahn, Founder and CEO, Moniker Sean Moriarty,...

Posted on August 20, 2007 1:13 PM

While some people think that governmental websites have higher authority than a .com or other TLD, the debate is still ongoing. This question, now, is whether .gov sites should automatically be indexed in Google, of if they should wait until...

Posted on June 18, 2007 9:00 AM

At Cre8asite Forums, moderator Barry Welford shares a pretty cool domain popularity tool with us. I wasn't able to get it to produce data yesterday, but today I tried again and it worked rather nicely. I have included a screenshot...

Posted on May 11, 2007 10:14 AM

There's an interesting discussion on Cre8asite Forums about losing rankings when you transfer your domain to another registrar. A few people suspect that doing so could cause a loss of rankings, but some other members have not seen any changes...

Posted on May 2, 2007 9:37 AM

In a WebmasterWorld thread, a member mentions that he has recently bought a domain from an owner who previously was banned from Google AdSense for violating TOS. He says that he is unable to get a response from Google and...

Posted on April 25, 2007 9:38 AM

WebmasterWorld moderator, martinibuster, posted a thread at WebmasterWorld documenting a pattern he is seeing recently with Google. He is asking, not telling, if people agree or disagree with his theory. In short, he is noticing that Google is apparently ranking...

Posted on April 25, 2007 7:34 AM