Since the launch of the new wave of generic top-level domains (gTLDs), there has been much speculation—but little evidence—about how these new web addresses can impact a website’s search engine standings. This includes geoTLDs, such as .nyc, .london and .berlin, and how they impact local search. Google has said in the past that keywords in a site’s URL have no bearing on how it ranks in the results.

welcome to our SEO in a Week blog post series! We want to provide you with as much information as possible to help you be your SEO best! Today, we will be talking about the various elements of SEO-friendly design and development . It’s important when building a website to ensure that not only will it provide a great experience for your users, but that it also can be easily crawled by search engines as well.

As a former SXSW underdog ourselves, we can truly appreciate a good SXSW success story. And, over the past 6 years, we’ve proudly watched as thousands of .CO companies have spread their wings at SXSW in Austin. Mere days remain before the .CO team arrives in Austin yet again, and we’d like to take a walk down memory lane to highlight just a few of the many SXSW .CO standouts of years past.

Last week we gave you lots of networking tips to help you get the most out of the event you’re planning to attend. So, you’ve made it through the conference and now it’s time to pack up and catch your plane back home. Now what? Today, we’re giving you some post-event tips to ensure you don’t just forget about all the new contacts you made!

Hi there, .CO friends! Welcome to another installment in our Google Algorithm blog post series! In our last post, we talked all about the Hummingbird update. Today we are talking about one of the biggest algorithm changes Google has ever launched: the Panda update. Google Panda is an algorithm change launched by Google that targets low-quality content, as well as content “farms”—sites that spit a large amount of content out that is of poor-quality and usually that is aggregated.

Alright alright alright – you’ve got the domain of your dreams and you’re ready to get your idea off the ground. Lucky for you, your domain with POP includes a starter page to get things off on the right foot. As you do, here are a few tips to ensure that search engines can find you. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) considerations as you setup your POP Starter Page:

For many people, the majority of their days are spent at work. It is only natural that you will be privy to and maybe even part of, milestones celebrated by your co-workers, employees, or even your boss. Although not mandatory, you may want to send a special gift to someone in your office to commemorate a special occasion, or just to let them know you are thinking of them.

We love our .nyc-ers! And, we especially love hearing about their success stories. Today, we have a compelling .nyc case study to share with you—and it’s all about how the .nyc domain has helped a New York business increase their search engine traffic. We recently spoke with Art Mal, co-founder of Souvenirs.nyc, to get the scoop on their SEO success story.

You may ask yourself how a .CO domain stacks up against a .com. Does it have the same potential to rank high in search engines? Gretchen Erle is an SEO Professional that works on-staff at .CO Internet. In her prior life, she was responsible for the creation and inception of the entire SEO initiative at AutoTrader.com.