Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'geo targeting'

A Google Webmaster Help thread reports that some webmasters (at least one) has set his Google Webmaster Tools to geo-target to the UK, but the site is ending up being geo-targeted to France. Here is what the webmaster said: This...

Posted on October 5, 2009 8:31 AM

Two threads at Google Webmaster Help report that .ME ccTLDs (domain names) can now be geo targeted in Google Webmaster Tools. Typically, Google doesn't allow you to geo-target a ccTLD (country specific top level domain). Google assumes that if you...

Posted on August 28, 2009 8:23 AM

Earlier, we noted how Bing, Microsoft's search engine, relied heavily on the meta language tag. Google's Matt Cutts even commented why using that method can lead to issues (don't you love it when the search engines nitpick at each other)....

Posted on July 30, 2009 10:25 AM

I have been tracking the WebmasterWorld thread on the July Google changes and a lot of people are now discussing how Google is treating location specific queries differently. By that I mean, the consensus in the thread is that there...

Posted on July 22, 2009 9:03 AM

A Bing Community thread has one webmaster who had his meta language tag set to the UK and he paid for it. Supposedly, Microsoft's Bing plays close attention to that meta tag and in the case of Joomla, the default...

Posted on July 21, 2009 8:45 AM

Like every month, we try to provide you with a Google webmaster report on what is going on with Google over the past month, in terms of the SEO perspective. You can read the April 2009 report, in case you...

Posted on May 6, 2009 9:08 AM

Over the past day or two, I have been hearing reports from webmasters and SEOs that Google's geo targeting technology has changed in a big way over in their international or localized search engines. I have one, possibly, two threads...

Posted on April 28, 2009 8:27 AM

Let's say you've geotargeted your Google AdWords ad for Florida. You'd be alarmed if you saw that the ad was being run in Oslo, Norway, wouldn't you? I suppose I would be. Is this a problem with Google? Well, in...

Posted on November 20, 2008 9:16 AM

First go read Greg Sterling's write up at Search Engine Land named Location in the Browser: What Does It Mean? Now that you read that, you will realize that the implication of Google adding geolocation capabilities to your desktop browser...

Posted on October 24, 2008 8:17 AM

Many paid search programs offer a way to geotarget your search ads. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft allow you to specify a radius in X miles, for how wide or small you want to target a specific location. I question many...

Posted on September 11, 2008 7:42 AM

Eric Enge interviewed Googler Maile Ohye relatively recently and provided an interesting summary of the interview on his blog. In the interview, Maile talks about the WebmasterTools API (especially with regards to extracting link data), using sitemaps for discovery, spam...

Posted on August 26, 2008 9:02 AM

A Google Groups webmaster is reporting that he is finding .co.nz (New Zealand) sites ranked highly in the Google Ireland (google.ie) search result. Strangely enough, that .co.nz site is not even hosted in New Zealand; it's hosted in the US....

Posted on May 27, 2008 9:03 AM

A couple weeks ago we reported seeing that Google.com's Country Specific Weights Getting Stronger. But some are seriously complaining about how much it has impacted them in the US search results at Google.com. The original WebmasterWorld thread is now 54...

Posted on February 14, 2008 7:18 AM

If you own a website in a specific country but want to target outside countries, what's the best way to do this? Is it worth hosting mini sites in the target countries? That's something you can consider, but if the...

Posted on November 13, 2007 10:01 AM

A Google Groups member asks about the ability to display a desired location underneath a search ad. As I mentioned two weeks ago, you can geotarget ads to a specific city. And thats' what another member says: You need to...

Posted on August 29, 2007 10:17 AM

A HighRankings Forum thread asks if there's an easy way to geotarget to a specific city and not to a general regional area (like Orange County, CA). Indeed there is. There are many ways to target your ads, from countrywide...

Posted on August 17, 2007 10:26 AM

There is an interesting proposition on the Engine Ready Newsletter about a Google AdWords strategy called Operation Camouflage that involves advertisers to geotarget their ads away from their competitors so that their competitors believe that they have stopped advertising (and...

Posted on August 3, 2007 9:40 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks how can one who is based in the UK and has ads currently running in the UK with Yahoo Search Marketing also have ads for the US market? Yahoo has set up their pay per click...

Posted on July 6, 2007 7:15 AM

Last week, I wrote about how to see geotargeted Google ads from another location. The solution, for Google, is relatively simple: add location attributes and values to the Google ad preview page. However, this time, a DigitalPoint Forums member asks...

Posted on June 26, 2007 9:52 AM

Let's say you're managing a pay per click campaign for an American client and you live in Canada. You need to get a good idea of the American competition on Google. One problem: you're only seeing ads targeted to your...

Posted on June 21, 2007 9:34 AM