It appears no one can escape the effect of the economy, even the search engine giant Google has announced the restructure of its sales and marketing organizations which will result on the lost of under 200 marketing job positions, the restructure comes at the time where most companies are rethinking the way they proceed and do business, cut expenses and overlapping positions. It is not a surprise then to see Google take such actions as a preventive method to the economy down trend. Google’s vice president of global sales and business development Omid Kordestani shares the details of this decision on the google blog.
In what this affects or might affect the relation between Google and web publishers?, it is not yet defined, but definitely something worth observing with attention and care specially for those that make a living out of web publishing.
I know many of you and even myself tend to forget to renew domain names till the last renewal day or we just leave our domains on auto renew, but from the SEO side it is actually a really bad habit that we all should avoid committing.
Most search engines as Google, Yahoo, Msn and many others actually check the registration and expiration dates of domain names and from this they might judge your commitment to your web business, so even without knowing it you could be penalized by search engines because of your domain expiration date, be careful otherwise your sites might have trouble getting pages indexed or ranking higher on the Serp specially near expiration dates. So it is actually recommended to renew domain names with several years in advance, two of three years won’t put you on the streets but will surely help you get seen by search engines as a serious and committed web owner.