{"id":24596,"date":"2024-05-08T11:47:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T11:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=24596"},"modified":"2024-05-08T11:47:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T11:47:22","slug":"google-says-having-news-in-your-site-name-is-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=24596","title":{"rendered":"Google says having news in your site name is fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a new SEO myth I haven&#8217;t heard before&#8230; Someone said that using the word &#8220;news&#8221; in your site name is bad for SEO and Google rankings.  Google&#8217;s John Mueller said no, it&#8217;s fine to use &#8220;news&#8221; in your site name.<\/p>\n<p>This question arose in the background of a <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/thread\/227739087?hl=en&#038;msgid=273037857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Help for Google Webmasters<\/a> thread where Mike Hardaker of the Mountain Weekly News said he was told, &#8220;Can&#8217;t I have the word &#8216;news&#8217; in my site name?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s John Mueller responded: &#8220;From a Search perspective, it&#8217;s fine to have &#8216;news&#8217; in the site name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it, another SEO myth busted.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, there are tons of news sites with &#8220;news&#8221; in their name.  CBS News, ABC News and all these local news channels\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion in the forum a <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/thread\/227739087?hl=en&#038;msgid=273037857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Help for Google Webmasters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-news-site-name-37344.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a new SEO myth I haven&#8217;t heard before&#8230; Someone said that using the word &#8220;news&#8221; in your site name is bad for SEO and Google rankings. Google&#8217;s John Mueller said no, it&#8217;s fine to use &#8220;news&#8221; in your site name. This question arose in the background of a Help for Google Webmasters thread where Mike Hardaker of the Mountain Weekly News said he was told, &#8220;Can&#8217;t I have the word &#8216;news&#8217; in my site&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24598,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596\/revisions\/24598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}