Comments on: Using Country Specific Domains For SEO http://blog.whatclinic.com/2009/07/using-country-specific-domains-for-seo.html Sharing Tech, Marketing & Health 2.0 information Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:37:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Caelen http://blog.whatclinic.com/2009/07/using-country-specific-domains-for-seo.html/comment-page-1#comment-562 Caelen Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:44:54 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/2009/07/using-country-specific-domains-for-seo.html#comment-562 Our results are moving to the right direction. After 4 weeks Irish pages have gained about 0,5 space and UK pages have dropped by 'only' about 1 space in comparison to the numbers before the experiment. Our results are moving to the right direction. After 4 weeks Irish pages have gained about 0,5 space and UK pages have dropped by ‘only’ about 1 space in comparison to the numbers before the experiment.

]]> By: Caelen http://blog.whatclinic.com/2009/07/using-country-specific-domains-for-seo.html/comment-page-1#comment-529 Caelen Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:26:57 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/2009/07/using-country-specific-domains-for-seo.html#comment-529 After 2 weeks we have some initial results which are pretty terrible for both .ie and .co.uk. Monitored keywords have dropped by about 3 space and the control group has improved by 1 space. Although it is far too early to draw a conclusion we speculate that this drop could be caused by a lack of trust and authority that the country specific domains have when compared to the .com domain. After 2 weeks we have some initial results which are pretty terrible for both .ie and .co.uk. Monitored keywords have dropped by about 3 space and the control group has improved by 1 space.

Although it is far too early to draw a conclusion we speculate that this drop could be caused by a lack of trust and authority that the country specific domains have when compared to the .com domain.

]]> By: Caelen http://blog.whatclinic.com/2009/07/using-country-specific-domains-for-seo.html/comment-page-1#comment-507 Caelen Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:52:19 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/2009/07/using-country-specific-domains-for-seo.html#comment-507 I've installed the comment subscrbe feature - now to test it works I’ve installed the comment subscrbe feature – now to test it works

]]> By: Richard Hearne http://blog.whatclinic.com/2009/07/using-country-specific-domains-for-seo.html/comment-page-1#comment-506 Richard Hearne Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:28:47 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/2009/07/using-country-specific-domains-for-seo.html#comment-506 Hey Caelen It would be great if you installed the subscribe to comments here. Make it easy to keep in the conversation :) I'll keep an eye on this - quite interested to hear how you get on. On the Google advice - ccTLD will overwrite server location, but with gTLD the server location will be important. That's why I wondered where you're hosted now. If you're in Ireland I'd expect the .co.uk to do very nicely from this, and vice-versa, if you get me. Rgds and well done again on publishing some really useful info here. Few companies hand out their experience so freely. Rgds Richard Hey Caelen

It would be great if you installed the subscribe to comments here. Make it easy to keep in the conversation :)

I’ll keep an eye on this – quite interested to hear how you get on.

On the Google advice – ccTLD will overwrite server location, but with gTLD the server location will be important. That’s why I wondered where you’re hosted now. If you’re in Ireland I’d expect the .co.uk to do very nicely from this, and vice-versa, if you get me.

Rgds and well done again on publishing some really useful info here. Few companies hand out their experience so freely.

Rgds
Richard

]]> By: Caelen http://blog.whatclinic.com/2009/07/using-country-specific-domains-for-seo.html/comment-page-1#comment-505 Caelen Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:50:28 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/2009/07/using-country-specific-domains-for-seo.html#comment-505 Hi Richard and thank for stopping by. 1. I have received a fair bit of contradictary advice here. Advice directly from Google is that domain is more important than server location. Guess we just have to test and see. 2. Any page that used to link to the old .com will now link to the new co.uk. It is fairly elegant in design at least, hopefully the implimentation will be too. I'll be posting the results, however that may be a month or more away. We aren't too worried about the results being in the sups, the pages that we want indexed are in the main index so I don't think we care that Google keeps them in the sups. I thought it was interesting though Hi Richard and thank for stopping by.

1. I have received a fair bit of contradictary advice here. Advice directly from Google is that domain is more important than server location. Guess we just have to test and see.

2. Any page that used to link to the old .com will now link to the new co.uk. It is fairly elegant in design at least, hopefully the implimentation will be too.

I’ll be posting the results, however that may be a month or more away.

We aren’t too worried about the results being in the sups, the pages that we want indexed are in the main index so I don’t think we care that Google keeps them in the sups. I thought it was interesting though

]]> By: Richard Hearne http://blog.whatclinic.com/2009/07/using-country-specific-domains-for-seo.html/comment-page-1#comment-504 Richard Hearne Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:39:13 +0000 http://blog.revahealth.com/2009/07/using-country-specific-domains-for-seo.html#comment-504 So things I'd consider if it were me: 1. Where are your servers currently? If in Ireland or the UK then I'm not sure the experiment will give too much benefit in whichever respective country you host. 2. How are you going to handle internal linking from the .ie and .co.uk? What will be on their respective homepages? Internal linking will come into play here also. I'll be interested to see how this turns out, especially given what I think is going to shortly be happening with Google's geotargeting. I see your recent tweet in the sidebar "We are experimenting 301'ing some of our IRL pages from .com to .ie, hoping for a boost in google.ie. Same for UK #seo". One of the things about being in supps is that Google will rarely crawl the pages, so they wont see the 301s, and hence the URLs will still exist is supps. One way to get them out is to point some link juice at the pages and then Google will crawl more frequently. It's likely the only time where pagerank matters any more. Will keep an eye out for results Rgds Richard So things I’d consider if it were me:
1. Where are your servers currently? If in Ireland or the UK then I’m not sure the experiment will give too much benefit in whichever respective country you host.
2. How are you going to handle internal linking from the .ie and .co.uk? What will be on their respective homepages? Internal linking will come into play here also.

I’ll be interested to see how this turns out, especially given what I think is going to shortly be happening with Google’s geotargeting.

I see your recent tweet in the sidebar “We are experimenting 301′ing some of our IRL pages from .com to .ie, hoping for a boost in google.ie. Same for UK #seo”. One of the things about being in supps is that Google will rarely crawl the pages, so they wont see the 301s, and hence the URLs will still exist is supps. One way to get them out is to point some link juice at the pages and then Google will crawl more frequently. It’s likely the only time where pagerank matters any more.

Will keep an eye out for results
Rgds
Richard

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