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Google buys domain name Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com

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Alphabet’s New Structure and Domain Strategy

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.  Alphabet chose a new tld for their website, abx.xyz, but they are still making similar domain name purchases.  They just recently purchased the "full alphabet", domain name that is,  Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com.  Yes, each

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Why use “WWW” for your website?

www-domain 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 it's actually a pretty good portrayal of the domain not having as much protection from the elements as one with the "www".

Naked domains & CNAME records for server traffic redirects

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Google’s new Parent Company, Alphabet, opts for new tld: abc.xyz

g-icon This week Google announced that it will now be operating under a newly created parent company, named Alphabet.  Alphabet will be run by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin - Page as CEO and Brin as president.  And Google's new CEO will be Sundar Pichai. In this restructuring, Alphabet will consist of a variety of companies that have been previously all run by Google, and Google will focus on the core Internet products, i.e. Android, YouTube, Google search, Google... Continue reading
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Google To Favor “Mobile Friendly” Websites In Search Starting Tuesday

Google Top Search Engine Ranking Factors Is your website mobile friendly?  If your website is not by this Tuesday you could be dramatically losing traffic to your website from smartphone users!  This coming Tuesday Google plans on rolling out their new revised formula in calculating who gets ranked on top of the Google searches on mobile. What makes a website mobile friendly?  If your website looks good and works well on smartphones, it means it is mobile friendly.  Some key things that are considered: -Links should... Continue reading
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“The Internship” with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson – great pr for Google

It's Friday night, time for movie date night.  We all heard that it's great to work at Google - the food, the relaxed environment, and the other various perks, and now there's a movie on it.  From the hit movie "The Wedding Crashers", Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are back together again in "The Internship".  They lose their salesman jobs, land internship spots at Google, and compete with the other interns - who are a lot younger and tech-savvy -... Continue reading
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How to use your website sitemap with Google Webmaster Tools

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You can create your website sitemap easily with Ultimate Web Builder software, and choose the filename too.  And you can submit the url of your sitemap to Google with Google Webmaster Tools.  You can use your gmail account or any google account you already have, for example for adsense or adwords.  On the Google Webmasters Tools page, first add your site.  Next, verify that you have admin access to your site using their process outlined (uploading the provided google

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