Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'geo'

A Google Webmaster Help thread once again confirms that Google ignores the geo-meta tags. Those tags somewhat look like this and use to serve the purpose of telling search engines where the site is based: <meta name="geo.placename" content="United States" /><meta...

Posted on September 29, 2009 9:07 AM

Search Engine Watch user davec004 has posted a question on the forums regarding the word "Georgia" appearing underneath a PPC listing in Google. I've also seen this occuring on the term [car insurance] for an account which my housemate and...

Posted by evilgreenmonkey on November 17, 2006 11:26 AM

We all know that Google uses geographic-IP technology to determine what ads to show you. For example, if you enter in hotel into Google, you most likely will get listings of hotels in your geo-specific location (not always but sometimes)....

Posted on September 28, 2006 8:37 AM

A Cre8asite Forums thread discusses the importance of obtaining links for ranking well within a specific geo-specific search engine. For example, you want to rank well for in Google Canada, you can try to (1) host your site in Canada,...

Posted on September 28, 2006 7:07 AM