{"id":644522,"date":"2013-02-28T14:24:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T19:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=219342"},"modified":"2013-02-28T14:24:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T19:24:06","slug":"matt-cutts-talks-location-and-cctlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/644522","title":{"rendered":"Matt Cutts Talks Location And ccTLDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Google&#8217;s latest Webmaster Help video, Matt Cutts discusses location and ccTLDs. Specifically, he responds to the following user-submitted question: <\/p>\n<p><em>We have a vanity domain (http:\/\/ran.ge) that unfortunately isn&#8217;t one of the generic TLDs, which means we can&#8217;t set our geographic target in Webmaster Tools. Is there any way to still target our proper location? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QCozweHGTk0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen this trend &#8211; as the domain name space gets a little more exhausted in .com, people get creative, and so Matt Mullenweg at WordPress grabbed ma.tt, for example, which is a really creative URL, but something that people don&#8217;t think about is: what is .tt? Or what is .ge?&#8221; says Cutts. &#8220;It&#8217;s Georgia, you know, there&#8217;s a lot of startups that have been using .io, which is the TLD for the Indian Ocean, I believe. So you have to think hard about is it the case that this is going to be known as an international area? If your&#8217;e just using .es because you can find some cool word that ends in .es, most people using that domain are targeting Spain. So that is our assumption &#8211; that you&#8217;re targeting Spain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says that some people want .li to be associated with Long Island, but it&#8217;s really associated with Lichtenstein, and that&#8217;s how Google views it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In some sense, it comes down to a little bit of a call about when a domain becomes truly generic. When it becomes appropriate for the entire world. So .co, which used to be, I think, Columbia, might be more generic now, where everybody&#8217;s using it as if it is another .com, but some domains, I would put some thought into. Just because it&#8217;s a cool URL, a lot of the times we&#8217;re going to be looking at it and thinking, &#8216;Hmm, this is actually related more to Lichtenstein that it is to Long Island, and so even though people want to do a Long Island business, we&#8217;re more likely to think that it&#8217;s in Lichtenstein.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to suggest that you post on Webmaster forums and &#8220;rally your case,&#8221; and do a blog post that says, &#8220;.iO is mostly startups, and this should not be related to this country&#8230;&#8221; Still, he says, Google has to look at the data and look at the domains that are in use, and make a judgment call. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=W4HYta4A9pA:adCx66GNFHc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=W4HYta4A9pA:adCx66GNFHc:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=W4HYta4A9pA:adCx66GNFHc:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=W4HYta4A9pA:adCx66GNFHc:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=W4HYta4A9pA:adCx66GNFHc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=W4HYta4A9pA:adCx66GNFHc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=W4HYta4A9pA:adCx66GNFHc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=W4HYta4A9pA:adCx66GNFHc:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=W4HYta4A9pA:adCx66GNFHc:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/W4HYta4A9pA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Google&#8217;s latest Webmaster Help video, Matt Cutts discusses location and ccTLDs. 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