Greenguy's Board - View Single Post - Do domain name extensions matter when optmalizing for a certain language?

Halfdeck · 2007-05-13, 04:45 AM

If you decide to go .com, you need the domain on a Beligan IP. Walmart, for example, bought a .com, put it on a UK domain and SEOd the hell out of it to rank #1 under a month for "car insurance" in UK local.

That's a competitive term, so it proves their decision not to bother with a .co.uk TLD wasn't a bad one. If you want to play it safe I say go with a .be and put it on a Belgian IP. I wouldn't think of those factors as ranking boosters though; they help Google decide whether or not to include you in local searches. So if you got a .be domain on a BE IP that's not necessarily going to help you outrank a .com on a BE IP or a .be on a US IP.

Why did Walmart optimize for UK traffic? According to Google Trends, more people from the UK than US search for "car insurance."

2007-05-13, 04:45 AM	#4
Halfdeck You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Haven, CT Posts: 985	If you decide to go .com, you need the domain on a Beligan IP. Walmart, for example, bought a .com, put it on a UK domain and SEOd the hell out of it to rank #1 under a month for "car insurance" in UK local. That's a competitive term, so it proves their decision not to bother with a .co.uk TLD wasn't a bad one. If you want to play it safe I say go with a .be and put it on a Belgian IP. I wouldn't think of those factors as ranking boosters though; they help Google decide whether or not to include you in local searches. So if you got a .be domain on a BE IP that's not necessarily going to help you outrank a .com on a BE IP or a .be on a US IP. Why did Walmart optimize for UK traffic? According to Google Trends, more people from the UK than US search for "car insurance." __________________ Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.