Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'TLD'

PDF Documents May Impact How Google Defines Your Site's Language

A Google Groups thread shares an interesting insight in how Google may interpret a site's language. A webmaster asked Google why a site with no pages in Spanish is being interpreted as a Spanish site in Google. The site in...

Country-Coded Top-Level Domains Do Not Rank Worse in Google.com

A Google Groups thread has discussion about the questions one webmaster has in regards to his country-coded top-level domain (ccTLD), moonri.se. There are a couple interesting points we can learn from this thread. (1) As the Google help document states,...

Google Webmaster Tools Can't Verify Serbia's .rs TLDs

Serbia currently has two TLDs, .rs and .yu. The .rs TLD is now replacing the .yu TLD, all .yu TLDs should be transferred over to .rs by September 30, 2009. FYI, .rs stands for Republika Srbija (The Republic of Serbia)....

The Big Top-Level-Domain Debate: Are .com's Better for SEO Purposes?

A very ordinary question was promoted to the WebmasterWorld home page, making for a great discussion on TLD, top level domains. The question is, does Google prefer a .com over a .biz, or a .org over a .edu, or .de...

Should .gov Websites be Automatically Indexed in Google?

While some people think that governmental websites have higher authority than a .com or other TLD, the debate is still ongoing. This question, now, is whether .gov sites should automatically be indexed in Google, of if they should wait until...


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