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Should you submit your sitemap to other search engines besides Google?

In the world of SEO, sitemaps play a crucial role in helping search engines discover and index your website’s content. But when it comes to submitting your sitemap, is Google the only search engine that matters? The answer is both … Continue reading

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What are the top search engines?

Here is a ranking of the top search engines, with an approximate percentage on how many use each: Rank Search Engine Market Share 1 Google 92.6% 2 Bing 2.94% 3 Yahoo! 1.51% 4 Baidu 1.35% 5 Yandex 1.07% 6 DuckDuckGo … Continue reading

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What is a GDPR message for AdSense, and why is it important?

A GDPR message for AdSense is a notice that publishers must display on their websites if they are using AdSense to serve ads to visitors from the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom. The GDPR (General Data Protection … Continue reading

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How to get Google to update your meta description for your website?

It is very easy to update your webpage meta description with UltimateWB – just update on the Pages > Edit Page section. Google may or may not update your meta description for your website, even if you have updated it. … Continue reading

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Does Google penalize blogs with posts written by AI?

I just started my website and want to use the blog section to drive some traffic to my website. Does Google care if I use AI to write the posts? Will using AI hurt my search engine rankings? Google does … Continue reading

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Wix does not allow you to add SSL to your websites

With Google pushing for all websites to be hosted with SSL, to protect personal data and increase website security, Wix still does not allow you to add SSL to your website.  It is currently a feature request their customers are … Continue reading

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Sanmay Ved owns Google.com domain for 1 minute

Anyone here watch the tv show “How I Met Your Mother”? “Nothing Good Happens After 2 A.M.” is the 18th episode in the first season of the television series. In this case, it was around 1:20 AM Eastern Time, on … Continue reading

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Google buys domain name Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com

Google has officially become a subsidiary of Alphabet, its new holding company.  After U.S. markets closed last Friday, Alphabet replaced Google as the publicly traded company, consisting of Google search, Adsense, Google Maps, YouTube, and other new ventures such as driverless cars. … Continue reading

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Why use “WWW” for your website?

You have 2 options for the url display of your website – with the “www” in the beginning, or without the “www”, otherwise known as a “naked domain”.  That terminology itself might persuade you to lean towards the “www” version for your website, and … Continue reading

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