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Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites?
If I am thinking about using one of the fancy country domains such as .me or .tv should I be worried about how Google treats such domains?
Or to put it another way, if all other things are equal ...
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Is it a bad idea to use a domain hack for my personal website name?
I want to create a personal webpage for info about myself (potentially for employment or other contact purposes), but the .com extension for my intended name is already taken. The name I want ends in ...
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How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of my data?
(I hope I asked the question right..)
Fake site
Our site lists products for sale.
eg : http://www.myWebSite.com/products/some-drink-we-love-to-guzzle
Each product page has been translated into a ...
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Is it possible to target Amazon's affiliate program to the user's country?
I have signed up for Amazon's affiliate program, to see how well it does. However, the program appears to be specific to each of Amazon's separate sites (Amazon.com, .co.uk, .ca etc).
Around 50% of ...
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What are the advantages of using country specific top level domains?
For instance, do country-specific sites and/or search engines give more weight to sites under a specific country level TLD?
Or, do country-specific TLDs exist just to increase the WWW namespace and ...
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How to get China to upgrade off IE6? [closed]
According to IE6 Countdown, IE6 usage is down to 11.4%, and they are watching for it to "drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support".
This sounds good in theory, but ...
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IP - Country based ad delivery
I am looking for an ad manager script/system (open source or paid) which can deliver different ads based on the IP - country of the visitors. Would be nice if you can name one if you know!
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Google Analytics: Disable tracking for country/region
I'm using google analytics on a small business website from germany. Today i noticed 86 visitors from Palo Alto on a Sunday. No matter where they come from and why there are visiting the site, they ...
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Low “time on site” and high bounce-rate in Japan
I'm seeing a substantially low "time on site" and high bounce rate from visitors coming from Japan. Comparing to other states, even in languages I don't speak, the stats are still dramatically worse. ...
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How does Google classify which country a website belongs to?
How does Google determine which country a website belongs to?
Is this technique also used by Alexa.com?
I don't think that the website's location is determined by its host's IP address or by its ...
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does co.uk domains need a uk citizen?
I am a us citizen based in the us. I would like to register a co.uk domain. Do I need to be a uk citizen or have some other sort of connection to the uk to register that domain?
For instance, .ca ...
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Separate urls for a set of pages sharing 80% duplicate content
Issue:
Currently my site has one particular page which has country specific data. So I've URLs like :
mysite.com/sale-united-states
mysite.com/sale-united-kingdom
mysite.com/sale-sweden
etc.
All ...
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Country specific content vs global content
I have a global product presentation website myproduct.com
For certain countries I also own the country domain: myproduct.co.uk, myproduct.com.au, myproduct.es, myproduct.de, etc.
The presentation ...
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Blocking adsense ad units for a particular country
So I have got one hater in India who bombarded on my adsense ad units. Luckily I didn't get banned from Google. I have blocked Indian visitors from my site using iq-blockcountry plugin (wordpress). ...
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Is it possible to block traffic originating from a specific country?
My personal website is currently getting a lot of spam comments at the moment, and most of them originate from Russia (I've used Google Analytics to identify the traffic, and a lot of the links link ...
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Shopping site catering to 2 countries where *most* content is same, except pricing. Duplicate content?
I'm working on redeveloping a small site for a boutique food producer. They are New Zealand based but are wanting to start selling in Australia. They have both domain names (.co.nz and .com.au).
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Will search engines divert worldwide traffic away from a website with a country specific TLD?
I have a website that contains world-wide suitable content, although it is in English. The site is just information; not ecommerce. However, it has a ccTLD of ".co.uk", so will search engines ...
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Are there any stats for local Google v. Google.com usage?
Are there any stats for web usage which have attempted to measure how many users in a given country use Google.com and how many use the local Google (e.g. Google.co.uk)?
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Economical DNS hosting separate from local registrar for country specific TLDs - email or web hosting not required
Our company owns many country specific top level domains (TLDs; .sg, .my). We will purchase more for other countries in all South East Asia.
These domains are associated with our websites hosted on ...
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Multiple country-specific domains or one global domain [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization?
My company currently has its main (English) site on a .com domain with a .co.uk alias. In addition, we have ...
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Register a .ca domain from the US — proxy service
we ara a US-based business and interested in registering a .ca domain. I understand the Canadian Presence Requirements for Registrants - CIRA (www.cira.ca/assets/Documents/Legal/Registrants/CPR.pdf). ...
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youtube country problem [closed]
Every time I logged into youtube my country is set to India. I have to manually change it to Worldwide(all) for world trending videos.
Can anyone tell me how to change it permenently?
