November 6, 2026·8 min read
Does Your Domain Name Help You Get Cited By AI Search?
A $224 test checked 7,374 keywords, 3,048 new domains and 60,000 AI answers to see whether an exact-match domain still helps you rank or get cited by AI search.
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Showing posts tagged “Domain Strategy” · 16 articles
November 6, 2026·9 min read
How To Boost Google Rankings For Pages Stuck On Page Two
How to boost Google rankings for pages stuck in positions 11 to 20: find them in Search Console, sort each one into one of four problems, and apply the fix that matches, from intent to links.
November 5, 2026·9 min read
White Label Link Building: What Agencies Should Check Before Reselling
White label link building for agencies: what vendors charge, the checks to run before you resell their links, the red flags, and what Google's spam policy means for paid placements.
November 4, 2026·10 min read
Should You Block AI Crawlers From Your Website?
Should you block AI crawlers? Most businesses should leave search and user bots open and decide on training bots deliberately. What 20 big sites do, and where blocks leak.
November 4, 2026·9 min read
How To Submit A Sitemap To Google And Bing, Then Check It Worked
How to find your sitemap on Shopify, Webflow, Wix, Squarespace, Ghost or a custom site, submit it to Google and Bing, and check in each report that it actually worked.
November 4, 2026·9 min read
Types Of Backlinks: Which Ones Still Help Rankings And AI Citations
The types of backlinks explained from Google's own docs: editorial, guest post, directory, resource, sponsored, UGC, nofollow, forum, PR, image and internal links, and which still help rankings and AI citations.
November 3, 2026·8 min read
How To See Your Backlinks In Google Search Console
How to see your backlinks in Google Search Console: where the Links report lives, what its three external-link tables show, how to export up to 100,000 links, and what the report leaves out.
November 3, 2026·9 min read
How To Build Backlinks That Help Google Rankings And AI Citations
How to build backlinks in 2026, method by method, with an honest time cost for each: mention reclamation, journalist requests, resource pages, broken links, guest posts, directories and data assets.
October 30, 2026·9 min read
Should You Buy Backlinks? Risks, Prices, And Safer Ways To Get Links
Should you buy backlinks? We found 25 sites openly selling dofollow posts on October 19, 2026 and checked their Google traffic. The median one gets about 300 visits a month. Here are the risks, the prices and the safer ways to get links.
October 27, 2026·8 min read
Ecommerce Link Building: How Stores Earn Links To Product And Category Pages
Ecommerce link building for product and category pages, based on who actually links to 15 online stores. Gift guides, best-of lists, launches and how-to guides earned the real links, and some 'top linked' pages were mostly spam.
October 27, 2026·8 min read
White Hat Link Building In 2026: Tactics That Still Work
White hat link building tactics that still work in 2026, taken from the real links of 12 small businesses on Google's first page. Plus the link-farm junk that made up 79% of their top linking sites.
October 26, 2026·9 min read
How To Get High Quality Backlinks Without Buying Junk
How to get high quality backlinks in 2026: what we found checking the 344 sites linking to pages that rank first, a five-minute quality check, and five ways to earn the links that count.
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