Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'geotargeting'

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