{"id":655722,"date":"2013-05-02T09:49:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T13:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=227893"},"modified":"2013-05-02T09:49:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T13:49:46","slug":"google-updates-indexing-to-treat-tlds-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/655722","title":{"rendered":"Google Updates Indexing To Treat TLDs Differently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has been updating its indexing systems to treat some TLDs differently than in the past. Some country-code TLDs are being treated as generic TLDs. <\/p>\n<p>The list, which may still change more over time, of generic country code TLDs is as follows: .ad, .as, .bz, .cc, .cd, .co, .dj, .fm, .gg, .io, .la, .me, .ms, .nu, .sc, .sr, .su, .tv, .tk and .ws.  <\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s Pierre Far shared the news in a Google+ post (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/google-cctld-generics-16729.html\">via Search Engine Roundtable<\/a>).<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> div.dittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g { background-color: #FFF; padding: 10px; } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g div.dittoPost { text-align: left; margin: 0 0 0 60px; min-height: 50px; color: #000; font-size: 13px!important; line-height: 18px; border: 1px solid #CCC; padding: 10px; -moz-border-radius: 4px; border-radius: 4px; } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g div.pic { display: block; float: left; padding: 0 10px 0 0 } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g div.pic a img { border: 0; } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g div.dittoPost div.author { display: block; line-height: 15px; padding-bottom: 10px } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g div.dittoPost div.author a { text-decoration: none; color: #000; } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g div.dittoPost div.author a:hover { text-decoration: none; color: #06C; } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g div.googleIcon { float: right; } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g span.timestamp { padding-left: 10px; } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g div.dittoPost span.metadata { display: block; font-size: 12px!important; line-height: 13px; padding: 10px 3px 0 3px; color: #C84035; font-weight: bold; } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g div.dittoPost span a.timestamp, div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g div.dittoPost span a.timestamp:hover { color: #999; text-decoration: none; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g div.dittoPost span.pic img { width: 50px; height: 50px; } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g div.dittoPost span.metadata .fbextra { color: #385998; text-decoration: none; } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g div.dittoPost a, div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g div.dittoPost a:visited { color: #06C; text-decoration: none; } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g div.dittoPost a:hover { color: #06C; text-decoration: underline; } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g .proflinkPrefix { color: #999; } div.innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g div.google-plus-photo { background: #111; outline: 1px solid #666; text-align: center; width: 100%; margin-top: 10px; } <\/style>\n<div class=\"dittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g\">\n<div class=\"innerdittoboxgooglez13qi12qlubfct1gm04cd5cqty2vvduhn4g\">\n<div class=\"pic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-EDh5By6ua5M\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAAAOE\/Drov4cdAx5k\/photo.jpg\" alt=\"Pierre Far\" width=\"50\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"dittoPost\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"googleIcon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.ientrymail.com\/socialditto\/googleplus\/plusicon.gif\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" align=\"absmiddle\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115984868678744352358\">Pierre Far<\/a><span class=\"timestamp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115984868678744352358\/posts\/RRmd67776wm\" title=\"Wednesday May 1, 2013 at 7:56am\" class=\"timestamp\">1 day ago<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><b>Expanded list of ccTLDs treated as Generic ccTLDs<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few months, we&#39;ve been updating our indexing systems to treat certain country country-code TLDs as generic TLDs; that is, even though the top-level domain has a country code, we would treat it, by default, as not targeting a specific country. Now that all the pieces are in place, we also updated our Help Center article listing the TLDs we treat as gTLDs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=1347922\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=1347922<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest addition includes the quite-popular (and personal favorite <img src='http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' \/>  ) <i>.io<\/i>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&#038;answer=1347922\">Geotargetable domains &#8211; Webmaster Tools Help<\/a><br \/>Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) don&#8217;t target specific countries. If your site has a generic top-level domain, such as .com, .org, or any of the domains listed below, and targets users in a particula&#8230; <span class=\"metadata\"><span style=\"float: right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ientrymail.com\/socialditto\/googleplus\/plus.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>20 &nbsp;&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ientrymail.com\/socialditto\/googleplus\/arrow.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/socialditto.com\/\" class=\"timestamp\">Powered by socialditto<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Google&#8217;s Matt Cutts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/matt-cutts-talks-location-and-cctlds-2013-02\">recently did a Webmaster Help video<\/a> discussing location and ccTLDs. If you&#8217;re reading this article, you might find it helpful. 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Some country-code TLDs are being treated as generic TLDs. The list, which may still change more over time, of generic country code TLDs is as follows: .ad, .as, .bz, .cc, .cd, .co, .dj, .fm, .gg, .io, .la, .me, .ms, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}