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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. If you haven’t noticed yet, I’m a big fan of the New gTLD domain names, but not because I just “like them” or like the way they sound. You might also want to read my SEO’s Guide to New gTLDs over at Moz.

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Are Web-Based Free Hosts Good For Business?

Small Business Mavericks

Some of these web-based hosts provide services like analytics, a blog platform, forum add-ons, and their sites even show up in the search engine rankings so the SEO is good. It costs less than $20 per year for a domain name and less than $15 per month for good hosting. Not all of them. Is it more work?

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My Last Blog Post of 2013

Bill Hartzer

It blew up in a private forum so to speak, a place where the general public (and the search engine crawlers) didn’t have access to: Facebook. But it was in a private venue, a private forum, where only a select few (a few hundred?) In 2013, when this happened, the SEO community used Facebook as a means of communicating.

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Search Engine Submission Now Officially a Scam

Bill Hartzer

In a recent Google Webmaster Forum thread , a Google representative officially stated: these services are not needed and can even be counter-productive. Furthermore, I have actually proven that within minutes of registering a new domain name, Google will visit your web site, in an attempt to crawl its pages and index the content.

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Triple X Niche Case Study Update: Expenses Report

Viper Chill

Diggy (my SEO business partner) is only allowed to focus on SEO and Mr.V (a beginner to making money online) is allowed to do anything he wants. SEO Expenses for a Brand New Website (Diggy). SEO Expenses for a Brand New Website (Diggy). Here is a breakdown of my expenses to date: Domain name : $11.

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A Step by Step Guide to Fixing Any Google Penalty

Kikolani

Majestic SEO: This website significantly reduces the efforts as it will show all your previous links instead of just the most recent ones. Once you enter the domain name select ‘Historic Index’ followed by backlinks tab, scroll to the bottom of the page and click ‘download data’ 2. Sit back and wait.

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

Kikolani

Now that that’s out the way, for those who don’t know what indexing in SEO means: it’s a record that search engines keep of all your web pages. This refers to server response time and whether the content is SEO optimized or not. The best way to avoid issues is to make sure that your website has been designed to be SEO friendly.

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