Google suggests ccTLDs could lose SEO value in years' time due to creative branding use, urging focus on content and hreflang for international targeting. Google may reduce the SEO boost for ccTLDs.

Google is retiring country-specific domains like google.co.uk Previously used for local content, Google now uses location to serve this The change will be happening over the next few months as shift ...

Message to all organizations that use .io domain names, of which there are currently an estimated 1.6 million: A move announced last week by the new Labour government in the UK could mean you may have ...

Google is in the process of consolidating the many international domain names that lead to google.com, eliminating sites such as google.co.jp and google.ru for Japan and Russia. The company says it no ...

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Google will begin redirecting its country code top-level domain names (ccTLD) versions of its Google domain to Google.com. That means if you frequent google.fr (in France), google.ng (in Nigeria) and ...

Domain extensions have been a core part of the web since its early days. In SEO, debates have continued for decades about how a domain extension, such as a TLD (top-level domain) or ccTLD ...

Com Laude, the world's most successful domain name advisor to brands and enterprise businesses, reported that the application window for new Top-Level Domain names ("TLDs") will be opened from April ...

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has approved the first four country-code domain names written in non-Latin script, it announced Tuesday. All existing top-level domain ...