John Mueller Just Handed Out Another Massive SEO Hint

Google’s John Mueller has been a fount of useful information for the SEO community for quite some time now. He has helped SEO professionals understand their field more accurately than might have been the case otherwise, along with providing tips that can come in handy if you are ever faced with a troublesome SEO situation that refuses to resolve itself despite your best efforts.

With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that the latest tip provided by Mueller has to do with top level domains (TLD). A user on Reddit asked Mueller whether it matters if their page is a .com, .site or any other type of domain. Mueller was quite clear in saying that .site domains might be cheap, but this also makes them fairly likely to be overrun with spam.

Hence, trying to save money on domains might lead to your site never getting indexed with all things having been considered and taken into account. It would be best to do some research because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up revealing with domains are spammy and which ones are clear, in that case Spamhaus might help.

This can have an enormous impact on your SEO potential, but in spite of the fact that this is the case, plenty of professionals working in this space still seem to be trying to create roadblocks for themselves by saving money on said domains. Domains that end with .com are not just a luxury. They also indicate that the domain itself will be relatively clean, thereby establishing it as a trustworthy source of information in the metaphorical eyes of Google’s web crawlers.

Picking the right kind of domain can be considered a crucial first step in getting started with SEO. Failing to do so could lead to your site not getting indexed, after which any and all SEO tactics that you deploy would very likely just end up going in vain. Mueller has once again pulled through for the SEO community by offering a tip that clears up a common source of confusion.

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by Zia Muhammad via Digital Information World