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by bhartzer 7y ago
Well that “big hammer” so to speak is that they tend to favor sites that have a lot of trust and authority. Someone mentioned that the sites that have the answer typically is buried in the results. That’s because they tend to favor big bran
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Google Acquires Pointy(techcrunch.com)
1 points by bhartzer 7y ago|0 comments
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Top Level Domain Bias in Search Engine Indexing and Rankings(hartzer.com)
1 points by bhartzer 7y ago|0 comments
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Fraudulent Invoices via Paypal from Godaddy(searchcommander.com)
5 points by bhartzer 7y ago|0 comments
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Dress for the Job You Want(twitter.com)
20 points by bhartzer 7y ago|4 comments
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Private Equity company acquires .org registry(domainnamewire.com)
300 points by bhartzer 7y ago|69 comments
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by bhartzer 7y ago
This is not a tiny experiment. They have been testing the removal of domains like this for YEARS.
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by bhartzer 7y ago
One of the issues that many don’t realize is that if google removes the domain it opens it up for more phishing attempts. If users don’t see the domain then they may see a similar site and click on it. But it’s not the official site.
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My Appropriately Geeky Halloween Costume(twitter.com)
2 points by bhartzer 7y ago|0 comments
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Send Your Name to Mars(mars.nasa.gov)
2 points by bhartzer 7y ago|1 comments
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by bhartzer 7y ago
GoDaddy's appraisal tool values it at $7,628 https://www.godaddy.com/domain-value-appraisal/appraisal/ Even though, in the same result, they report the comparables: duderanch.com $17,949 heroesranch.com $7,50
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by bhartzer 7y ago
>> But there have been some changes to SEO (Google weighting factors and more navigational searches) that have reduced the value of them. Well, I've actually studied this a lot... and it's not that Google reduced the value o
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Entire Tech Company Locked Out of Office Because of an Umbrella(twitter.com)
12 points by bhartzer 7y ago|3 comments
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by bhartzer 7y ago
Google WAS actually giving additional ranking benefits to subdomains like this. Especially subdomains like coupons.domain.com. However, just recently Google hit these sites hard--giving those subdomains penalties. So this "parasite SEO
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Easily Track Your Hacker News Mentions(irishwonder.com)
2 points by bhartzer 7y ago|0 comments
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Majestic Link Context(blog.majestic.com)
2 points by bhartzer 7y ago|0 comments
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by bhartzer 7y ago
I’ve seen where someone has “hosted” an entire site on a router. Would that qualify as serverless?
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Let's Help Him Get His Laptop Back(twitter.com)
3 points by bhartzer 7y ago|0 comments
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by bhartzer 7y ago
There is a big difference between domain squatting and domain investing. Or simply buying domains that drop. I don’t understand how you can say that it’s “domain squatting” on “your” name if you don’t own a trademark on the word or on your
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Get an ecommerce competitor's internal search data(twitter.com)
10 points by bhartzer 7y ago|1 comments
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by bhartzer 7y ago
Computer-generated content has been around for a long time... and I even tested creating websites with auto generated content in the 1990s. It's nothing new. In fact, the content has been so good for a long time that even scientific pa
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by bhartzer 7y ago
You see all those xrummer blog comment links and forum links out there... but that does NOT mean that it's helping. Most likely those links are just there to hide the links that are actually helping the site rank. That's typically
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by bhartzer 7y ago
They are not called “dropped domains”, the term used more often is “expired domains”. The author doesn’t even mention how registrars are a player and part of this, as they auction off the more valuable domains even before they are dropped.
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by bhartzer 7y ago
There are services that track google IPs, those doing black hat SEO and cloaking rely on them. Google is going to crawl, you just can’t stop them from crawling even if you tell them not to in robots.txt. Best option at this point is to add
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by bhartzer 7y ago
Just to be clear, there is a mistake in this post. Adding a noindex tag will cause google to not display the page in their search results. They will still crawl ( they have to), in order to see that directive. Also, keep in mind that google
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by bhartzer 7y ago
If you don't want someone or a bot to find it, don't put it online.
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by bhartzer 7y ago
Google has been very clear lately (via John Mueller) regarding getting pages indexed or removed from the index. If you want to make sure a URL is not in their index then you have to 'allow' them to crawl the page in robots.txt and
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Insider Reveals Google Plan to Prevent 'Trump Situation' in 2020(youtube.com)
50 points by bhartzer 7y ago|9 comments
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by bhartzer 7y ago
If you're looking for SEO value... there's a fairly easy way to check a list of domains. Use the Majestic.com 'bulk backlink checker', and sort by Trust Flow. You'll want to find domains that have a higher TF than C
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Google Rewards Reputable Reporting, Not Left-Wing Politics(twitter.com)
2 points by bhartzer 7y ago|0 comments

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