Matt Cutts, Ing. de Software del equipo anti-spam de Google explica las ventajas y diferencias entre tener un nombre de dominio con palabras claves y tener un dominio con un nombre corto y mas facil de recordar.

Matt explica que en breve harán ajustes en sus algoritmos de Rankings para no dar tanto peso a dominios que contengan palabras clave. El video tiene traduccion a diferentes idiomas. Solo oprime CC una vez que inicie el video y selecciona las opciones adecuadas en “Translate Captions”.

This is a good video where Matt Cutts explains how Google determines your doman age and if this matter is important for ranking well in serp’s.

In general terms, Google takes in count the date when the first link pointed to your domain or when was the first time that Google crawled your domain name.

And like Matt Cutts explains, don’t worry too much about that factor, you should worry about publishing good quality content and update frequently your website.

The Mexican History.
In Mexico there is a monopoly called NIC Mexico, the only .MX domain name registrar since the beginning of internet in Mexico. Since 1989, the number of .MX domain has grown to almost a 220,000 active domain names right now.

The price for a .MX domain name is set by NIC Mexico to $35.00 USD, a price that is really expensive compared with other countries. You can make a cheap domain name registration for less than $9.99 USD with many registrars and as low as $6.99 with GoDaddy.com, and in Argentina for example, the domain names .com.ar are totally free, so domain name prices in Mexico are not cheap in any way.

Almost a GoDaddy.com Slogan.
GoDaddy.com says “A domain name is a domain name everywhere. Why pay more?”, and that’s a fact. They have a comparative table announcing low prices against Register.com, Network Solutions.com and eNom.com, companies that sell domain names in $35.00 dollars.

GoDaddy.com is well known all over the globe for being a cheap domain name registration company, and frequently they offer .com domain names for as low as $1.99 USD buying some [Read more →]

I used to buy Yahoo domain names as cheap as $1.99 dollars for the first year registration, after that, the renewal price for a Yahoo domain name was an affordable $ 9.90 each year. But those days are gone away. Since this month Yahoo has increased the domain name prices to $34.95 dollars for one year renewal as you can see in red boxes that show $34.95 for renewals and $9.00 if you want a private registration.

I agree that prices can suffer an increment with the time, but change from $9.90 to $34.95 it’s a 353% increment. What is the strategy behind this movement? Recover what Microsoft offered for the company? [Read more →]