Hi, I'm from Europe and have some concerns when it comes to the questions does google use in his algorithms (for google.com) fact that we are not from the US( he can find that from analytics, who is, you name it). In my country for very competitive word (around 40.000.000+ competitors) I mange to have great SERPS(1 to 10) with one of my sites, for that and many similar keywords in very small amount of time(2-3 months) and very little promotion, I manage to have about 300-500 visits in few days and 5000 in just 1st month. I also created some test WP blogs to see if I can rank in first 10 for some other keywords with less backlinks and efforts and I have also able to rank high for other keywords. Also I have created another site completely in english and for english speaking people(site is hosted in US in California and have Los Angeles IP) and for main keyword have about 20.000.000 competitors and have invested great amount of time(I'm also programer) and money in that site and now after 1 month of promotion and building very quality relevant and in content relevant links as well as some other link baiting techniques ad so on, there is just 2-10 visits from google. This is not my first site and have more in english and I quite sure that they suffer for the same disease. I see many people from US create sites for midium and high competitive keywords and they have results with they sites like I have with mine in my country(with little effort). My conclusion will be that we from "other" countries are in some way "banned" from google.com SERPS and have to work much harder for better SERPS and when site gain some authority after some time then maybe google will consider it and list site in better SERP. So my question is: is this just sandbox(supplemental index) or some of you have experience in something like this ? Can you please say something from your own experience? Especially I want to hear US webmasters what they have to say about that theme? Thanks, Nemanja
I wouldn't use the word 'banned'. I more lean towards the word combination 'not as relevant', and perhaps this is more to do with some sort of geo-targetting than anything else. I've been doing a lot of queries on google.co.uk lately for a personal project that I've been working on. The results are highly targeted and relevant in perhaps 85-90% of the queries. I've tried doing the same queries on the google.com site and that relevancy drops dramatically and aren't really all that relevant, plus 'a lot' of the results that I've seen from google.co.uk don't really appear in the google.com results. I've also seen .com domains appear highly in the .co.uk results and nowhere in the .com results. The only thing that I can conclude from this is that google is perhaps looking at the home country of the domain owner and/or the actual physical location of the website to determine if it is 'relevant' or not to that particular country. I don't live in the US and I've seen some of my sites appear nowhere in the .com results but place highly in the non-.com results. The only way around this, I suppose, is to use a USA-based host, and when you register your domain, use the physical address of the USA-based host as a mailing address. Once you register the domain (try paying by Paypal), you'll rarely, rarely get anything other than emails about your domain.
I agree, I just wanted to be more dramatic with "banned" Yes, I gues I can have registar address like my domain host have, but don't know will that would be of any help because: Also G can figure out my country by my G account, but I can use some other name, address etc whencreating that acc, but G can track my IP and connect me with my "English" site again and this is never ending story, like magic cyrcle... Nemanja
Your personal information, country of residence, TLD etc... has nothing to do with your websites ranking. There is other factors to be considered by Google to rank websites within different Google Local Search and DC's... If your website is newly indexed and targeting commercial nor competitive keywords then you might suffer from a delaying penalty as well as link aging... After all if your website is clean, relevant, well optimized.. and you kept on building quality backlinks you will start to see results soon.. based on the targeted keywords and phrases. Do you mind sharing your website URL so we might try to help you more ?
in lieu of SE when site deals with seo, it does matter with geo targeting or visitor, my site hosted in usa and i m optimizing it frm india, so when i check my webmaster tool , there r lots of search queries from .com tha .co.in, so i think there is a cause of traffic and who are visited ur site often and frm where, so i have not used geo tag in meta ...... but i think traffic resources does matter to index site in perticular datacentre
I'm from Brazil and in our country, Google has changed recently its language and map filter. For instance, till two months ago, there werent significant differences between google.com and google.com.br results but lately there are huge modifications in this aspect. I also have some blogs in spanish and two months ago Google has started to give more atention to local results, for instance, sites .com.mx do not go very well on google.es as they used to.