Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'geographic target'

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,...

Does Setting Your Geographic Target In Google Webmaster Tools Work?

search_engine981:http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/017091.htmlBack in October of 2007, Google launched Set Geographic Target in Google Webmaster Tools. It basically allowed you to tell Google if your site is based in a certain geographic location. For example, let's say you had a UK site,...

Google Picks Up Geographic Target Setting Within Two Months

Google Webmaster Central launched the ability to set the "geographic target" of a particular site within Google Webmaster Tools back in late October of last year. We have been gleaning hints and tips on if it works and how well...


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