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Gmail Not Recognizing New gTLD Domain Names

Bill Hartzer

Google Plus does recognize them , though. When you send an email to someone who uses Gmail, and you include a new gTLD in the email, Google does NOT make it a clickable link. TLDs, Gmail turns them into clickable links in the email when it was received, whether the sender made the domain name a clickable link or not.

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Moving Your.COM to a.BRAND Domain? Google Says…

Bill Hartzer

Brands that have purchased their own.BRAND TLD (Top Level Domain) shouldn’t worry about moving their websites. I recently asked Gary Illyes, the Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, about the effect on search when you move your website from a.COM domain name to a domain on your own.BRAND TLD.

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Google Hosts Low Quality Article Directory with Links They Want Us to Remove

Bill Hartzer

Google is hosting the very articles that contain links that Google is telling us that they want removed. That’s right, in what can only be a unique twist of irony, Google is playing web host to thousands of low quality spammy articles, the exact same type of articles that Google wants us to remove. Oh, the irony.

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Google Web Designer For HTML5 Sites That Work On Any Device

Bill Hartzer

With everyone talking about responsive web design, and creating websites that will work on any device, Google Web Designer seems to be a pretty good option. Really, only 2 minutes, to download and test out Google Web Designer on a recently-acquired domain name, Streaming Video , where I wanted to put up a real basic web page.

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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 Build A Successful Business Blog (a Getting Started Guide)

Rebekah Radice

Steps to getting started: Finding the right domain name is a crucial piece to building a successful blog. Do your research, understand the keywords people are using to find your product or service and then keep your blog and domain name consistent. Purchase your domain and setup hosting. Social Media.

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8 Important Admin Tasks to Do When Launching a New Blog

ProBlogger

2: Delete the Default “Sample” Page. WordPress comes with a default “Sample Page” that looks something like this: You don’t want to leave that sample page in place. Just make sure you change the permalink to something other than sample-page. ). #3: 7: Set Up Google Analytics and Google Search Console.

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