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New gTLD Domain Name Forum Launched

Bill Hartzer

A New gTLD Domain Name forum has recently launched. I’ve recently joined the forum, and so far have made several helpful connections through the site. Right now, there are domain name forums out there and they have areas to discuss the new gTLD domain names. Domain Names'

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Google Activates Their First New gTLD Domain Name

Bill Hartzer

Google has activated their first New gTLD domain name, which is nic.google. Nic.Google currently redirects to the Google Registry. The Google Registry was looking for registrar partners to help test their registry platform. Google is planning on being the registry for the following New gTLDs: ???

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Domain Name Scam Alert: ICANN Does NOT Provide Domain Name Appraisals

Bill Hartzer

There is a pretty nasty domain name appraisal scam going around that you need to be aware of if you own domain names. The scammer’s only intent is to make money from a domain name appraisal service, which is fake. This is a scam, and domain name owners should not fall for this online scheme.

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Google Change of Address Tool Still Broken After 3 Months

Bill Hartzer

A while back I wrote about my utter frustration with Google and their Change of Address Tool. If you look at the screen capture above, you can see that when you use their Change of Address Tool, Google doesn’t allow you to redirect to an internal page on your site when you move your site. Google isn’t perfect.

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A Step by Step Guide to Fixing Any Google Penalty

Kikolani

If your website is receiving reduced web traffic or the present strategy in place is not working as efficiently as it once did then you probably have been penalized by Google. Every web portal has to abide by Google’s webmaster guidelines to reach amongst the top ranking in search engine results. Why did we get the Penalty?

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How to Block Semalt.com from Accessing Your Website Using.htaccess

Bill Hartzer

Yesterday, I wrote a post about how to stop Semalt.com from showing up in your Google Analytics account. According to the Google Product forums, Semalt’s CEO, Yuriy Yakovenko , asked why Google was blocking (or removed) their website, soundfrost.org, from Google. information/. https://twitter.com/search?

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Google Index: 6 Ways to Get Your New Website Added Fast

Kikolani

Let’s get this out of the way first: there is no time guarantee of when your new website is going to be added to the Google index. Google says, “ Crawling and indexing are processes which can take some time and which rely on many factors. Google indexing factors. Actually, Google only cares about you once others care about you.

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