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Google starts penalizing websites which have their domains leased

We had recently reported that Google is against the act of leasing domains as well as renting them. Basically, if you have ever given your domain to someone for money or you have let them host their website on your property then it is called as domain renting. Domain leasing, on the other hand, is [

Abhishek · September 1, 2019
SEO

Google says that moving to a new domain to avoid penalty does not work

If you have been following SEO news very closely, you might have heard regarding the website penalty served to Dejan who is a veteran in the SEO industry. While he says that he did not make any links in recent times, he mentions that the penalty could be because of his previous link-building strateg

Navneet · August 28, 2019
SEO

Google says that your Web Site’s traffic is not a ranking factor

We have seen many instances were people are misguided or they have some misconceptions about things. Here, we are talking about the SEO side of things and there are plenty of serious misconceptions in this field too. While we have been constantly clearing those for people with the help of answers fr

Abhishek · August 27, 2019
SEO

Google Maps for Android now allows owners to reply to Reviews

One of the best things to have ever happened to the world is Google Maps. We have seen that many of the services from Google are very popular. However, one of the most popular service out of them without a doubt is Google Maps. Basically, Google Maps allows you to see the directions, gives you [&hel

Abhishek · August 24, 2019
SEO

Google’s John Mueller says not every Googler is interested in SEO

This is one of the weirdest answers that you might have imagined. One thing which is a fact is that Google is the best search engine in the world right now. This means that Googlers are responsible for making the best search engine and maintaining it as well. So the general perception would be that

Abhishek · August 17, 2019
SEO

Google warns users against leasing or renting subdomains or subfolders

We have some sort of clear communication from Google Webmaster regarding practice in Search. While this practice is not illegal, we know that this is not common as well. Therefore, it is not very easy to notice if someone is doing it. We are talking about the practice of renting or leasing your subd

Navneet · August 17, 2019
SEO

Google advises it is better to nofollow links that involve money

One of the best things to have happened to the internet, especially SEO users and enthusiasts, is the presence of John Mueller from Google. He has been instrumental in clearing doubts regarding SEO to the community. We have seen that Google is often found to be silent on a lot of things regarding Go

Navneet · August 16, 2019
SEO

Amazon Alexa’s website ranking does not affect Google Search

If you have been in the industry from a while now, you would know how people love to post their Alexa rankings. These are basically rankings given to each and every website that have Alexa installed or not. Alexa is a company which is owned and operated by Amazon and they determine the ranking of [&

Navneet · August 14, 2019
SEO

Google says embedding Instagram images on your website will harm you

Social media websites such as Instagram have seen the most amount of traffic as well as users in recent time. And the reason behind this is graphical content which people love to consume nowadays. Therefore, it is advised by most of the SEOs to add some images in between your articles or text on the

Abhishek · August 13, 2019
SEO

Google says adding alt text is important while linking to images

Google’s John Mueller did a hangouts session as he does quite regularly at Google. Same as every time he does a session, we got quite some interesting things and revelations about search. During this session, someone asked him a question about regular links compared to image links. The question was

Kewei Lin · August 10, 2019

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