Amazon Alexa (alexa.com)

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  anautismobserver · Member · Jul 29, 2019 at 6:42 pm

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  Why doesn’t Amazon Alexa (alexa.com) rank blogs with a .home.blog extension? Can this be remedied?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jul 30, 2019 at 7:50 am

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  Hi there,

  That would be a question for them.

  All public WordPress.com sites are discoverable to search engines and analytics services like Alexa.com, so if any service chooses not to index a particular domain, only they can tell you why.

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  anautismobserver · Member · Jul 31, 2019 at 12:13 am

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  Below is the email I received in response to my inquiry to Alexa.com. As the domain owner, I believe WordPress is best situated to submit home.blog (and all the other domain extensions WordPress offers) to the Public Suffix List at https://publicsuffix.org/submit/. Please do so. Thank you.
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  Debbie (Alexa Support)

  Jul 30, 13:35 PDT

  Hello,

  Thank you for reaching out. Please submit home.blog to the Public Suffix List at https://publicsuffix.org/submit/. That list is what we use to distinguish hosting domains and TLDs from non-hosting domains.
  Cheers,
  Debbie
  Alexa Customer Support

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  supernovia · Staff · Jul 31, 2019 at 12:35 am

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  Thank you for that, @anautismobserver. We’ll check in with team on this.

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  anautismobserver · Member · Aug 7, 2019 at 8:11 pm

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  Will WordPress submit home.blog (and all the other domain extensions WordPress offers) to the Public Suffix List at https://publicsuffix.org/submit/? If so, when will this happen?

  Thank you.

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  supernovia · Staff · Aug 7, 2019 at 8:57 pm

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  Ah! I’m sorry I didn’t update you sooner… I’d originally planned to follow up when it was done, but we’re still working on a few aspects of making it happen.

  I don’t have an ETA yet, but do know it’s in progress!

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  anautismobserver · Member · Aug 26, 2019 at 9:06 am

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  Why is it taking so long? I was expecting it to be quick and easy for you.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Aug 26, 2019 at 9:27 am

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  This is something that has to be done through the registry that controls .blog domains. We have requested that they submit those domains to Alexa.com, but we don’t have control over how long the process takes on that end.

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  supernovia · Staff · Aug 26, 2019 at 10:48 pm

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  @anautismobserver we’ve heard back — it turns out this is not something the registry will do at this time. Thanks for your patience.

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  anautismobserver · Member · Aug 26, 2019 at 10:54 pm

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  What does that mean? Will it still happen? If so, when?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Aug 26, 2019 at 11:45 pm

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  At the moment, this has been put on the back burner while they attend to some more important issues.

  We do not know when, or if, this will be done.

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  anautismobserver · Member · Aug 27, 2019 at 2:44 am

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  Is this something that needs to be done by WordPress, or can I submit a few .blog extensions (such as home.blog and video.blog) to the Public Suffix List at https://publicsuffix.org/submit/ myself? If the latter, can you supply me with any information I would need to do so?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Aug 27, 2019 at 4:16 am

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  This is not something you can do yourself, no. At this point there is nothing more that can be done.

  If you want control over your individual site’s Alexa ranking, that will require that you register a custom domain instead.