Does google look at domain while showing results

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    If i have a content thats meant for US audience and i take a domain such as .in or .co.uk (mostly for the reason as a better domain is available there, the .com one is gone) would google show any different listings in search results as compared to say if the domain was .com or .us?

    Someone told me that google prioritizes the results for that region based on the the domain so by that logic .co.uk would not get much rank in US? Is that true?
     
    Ruby707, Feb 27, 2015 IP
  2. praetserge

    praetserge Notable Member

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    yes, it is true... those extensions are specific for each country.
    Why don't you try .net for example?
     
    praetserge, Feb 27, 2015 IP
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    blogdum Well-Known Member

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    Yes, its true but you can still rank those domains(.in, .uk, etc) if you know right seo.
     
    blogdum, Feb 28, 2015 IP
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    ahmansoor Well-Known Member

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    Yes its true - ranking for a .in or .co.uk domain in US will be extremely difficult unless you are in an noncompetitive market!
     
    ahmansoor, Feb 28, 2015 IP
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    For those particular extensions it is true. If you're on a .co.uk domain you probably won't rank as well in Google.com as you would in Google.co.uk.. Same goes with the IN extension. I don't think Google looks at gTLD's (COM/NET/INFO/CC/ORG..etc.) like this, but it does for ccTLD's (IN/DE/CO.UK/CH/FR..etc)
     
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    Yes, domain name using your targeted keywords always help to get rank your site in the search engines.
     
    deepakrajput, Mar 2, 2015 IP
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    Kushal Shah Active Member

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    Having location based schema tags will help you achieve rankings, TLD's doesn't matter much if you know the real techniques in SEO.
     
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    Yes it is true and it is include in Google 200 Ranking factors That Google gives Prefer to specific country location based extension. Suppose if your targeted audience in specific region of uk then it is a good and clever idea you purchase .uk extension. rather then .com (Global/commercial) extension.
     
    shahzaib_sultan, Mar 6, 2015 IP