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Google Removing Domain Names From Search Results Increases Internet User Vulnerability

Bill Hartzer

On Thursday, April 16, 2015, Google announced that they are beginning to remove the domain name from the mobile search results. Rather than displaying a URL in the search results or a domain name, Google has begun to display a website name or a website name and a breadcrumb of the website’s page.

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Laureate Education Sues Domain Name Proxy Service for Trademark Infringement

Bill Hartzer

is suing Domain Name Proxy Service, Inc. The Domain Name Proxy Service, Inc. Well, if you are in this situation, and you need to protect your trademark(s), especially if a rogue website is using your trademark on their website, first I would go ahead and look up the whois data for the domain name.

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How to Properly Redirect a Domain Name and Get Link Credit

Bill Hartzer

I recently received an email from Duane Long asking a question about redirecting a domain name that he had recently purchased. He is trying to redirect the domain name so that he can get the proper link credit; so that the links from the domain name he bought is credited to his current, live website.

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Search Engine Optimization Tip: Check the Whois on Your Domain Name

Bill Hartzer

Technically speaking, Whois is is a query/response protocol which is widely used for querying an official database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the Internet. There are several things that you need to take a look at on the domain name’s whois record.

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Wordpress.com Vs Wordpress.org: Which Is The Best Blog Platform

Social Media Marketing

Difference between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.Org When you want to host a blog with a Domain name and want Wordpress to handle most of the web hosting tasks you choose Wordpress.com. You can make changes and get domain and FTP access to your website. Users get a site with an extension of.Com when with a professional URL.

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Google Issues Search Engine Optimization Report Card

Bill Hartzer

Google has issued what they are calling an SEO Report Card , an effort to provide Google’s product teams with ideas on how they can improve their products’ pages using simple and accepted optimizations. Why would Google purposely not grade these elements, like canonical tags and canonical issues, as well as subdomains?

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Google Search Console: Adding Your Website Made Simple

BeingOptimist

Fix Problems Quickly: Sometimes, websites can have little issues. Domain Name Provider: If you got your domain name from a special place (a provider), you can let Google talk to them and confirm your website’s realness. ” It’s like finding the entrance to a secret chamber.

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