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Google Says Hyphens In Domain Names Not Considered Low Quality

Google’s John Mueller was asked if having hyphens in your domain name, like www.my-site-goes-here.com, can cause ranking issues in Google Search. John Mueller said no, domains with hyphens are not seen as low quality by Google algorithms. Here are those tweets: I’m tempted to answer something sarcastic, but no. — John Mueller is watching out

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Google Updates Review Content Guidelines For Personal Information & Fake Engagement

Google has updated the Google Maps User Contributed Content Policy around prohibited and restricted content. Specifically, Google updated the definition of personal information under the Civil discourse section and fake engagement under the Deceptive content section. Here is a link to this document. Here is what changed: Personal Information The personal information section originally read,

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Google On A Site With A Long History Of Spamming & Ranking In The Future

Google’s John Mueller was asked about a domain name purchased several months ago but still does not rank well in Google Search. John explained that the domain has a “long and complicated history.” “It’s going to be hard to convince search engines that it’s something very different & unrelated to what was done in the

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