Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'geographic target'

Typically, TLDs (top level domains) that end with country specific IDs cannot be geo-targeted in Google Webmaster Tools. For example, if you own domain.co.il, you typically cannot set the Geographic target of that domain to England or the US. But...

Posted on September 23, 2008 8:25 AM

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...

Posted on June 13, 2008 8:43 AM

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,...

Posted on June 12, 2008 7:03 AM

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,...

Posted on May 9, 2008 7:37 AM

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...

Posted on January 28, 2008 7:49 AM