Expired Domains for SEO: What Buying One Actually Gets You
What buying an expired or aged domain actually gets you today, and why Google now treats some redirect setups as reputation abuse.
Playbooks, research and tactics on SEO, AI content and automation.
What buying an expired or aged domain actually gets you today, and why Google now treats some redirect setups as reputation abuse.
Why OTAs dominate a hotel's own brand search, how the Google Hotels ecosystem actually works, and what Hotel schema and rate parity mean for direct-booking SEO.
Sitelinks aren't requested or submitted. Google generates them algorithmically, and the real work is making your site's structure clear enough for it to trust you with extra links.
How Google actually crawls, titles and ranks PDF files, and the HTTP headers that control indexing when a page tag isn't an option.
What this Search Console status means, how it differs from Google overriding your canonical, and how to decide whether to fix it or leave it.
WooCommerce's default URLs, archives, pagination and stock settings quietly create duplicate content and crawl waste; here is what to fix and in what order.
How to tell whether Google's 'Crawled - currently not indexed' status is a quality judgment, a rendering problem, or a linking problem, and what to actually change.
Search Console shows the URL as discovered but never crawled, for reasons that have nothing to do with content quality. Here is what actually gets it fetched.
Weighs blocking AI crawlers against allowing them: the split between training bots and retrieval bots, what each robots.txt token controls, and what enforcement actually requires.
A plain look at the llms.txt file: what it is, how it differs from robots.txt and sitemap.xml, and whether publishing one does anything today.
What Google actually requires you to disclose about AI-written content, where the line belongs on the page, and why running a draft through a detector is the wrong test.
Turn a generic keyword difficulty score into a ceiling calibrated to your own site's proven ranking ability.