Google’s John Mueller was requested about whether it is okay with Google Search to have a web site with the identical title as one other website on the web. John mentioned he couldn’t give authorized recommendation round copyright points however he mentioned in terms of Google Search and website positioning, it’s superb.
John was requested, “By probability, I found that there’s a web site that has the identical title as mine, however its web site handle is totally different, the language of its web site is totally different, and the subject of the web site is totally different. Is that this thought of a violation of Google’s legal guidelines?”
John replied, “There are many websites which have comparable names (there are lots of prime stage domains, so it happpens that somebody makes use of the identical “title” on a distinct prime stage area). That is superb, there isn’t any rule towards it from us. I can not assist with copyright or trademark (or different authorized) points, so in case you assume that is an issue, you would be finest off checking with a lawyer.”
Yea, the difficulty could be extra round authorized points and that will fear me greater than the website positioning or Google points.
And if you’d like your web site to come back up first to your firm title and somebody extra established makes use of that title, you is perhaps out of luck as effectively.
In my view, change the title of your organization if it isn’t too late.
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