Google Glitch .com/.ca?

Discussion in 'Google' started by lorocreative, Aug 24, 2008.

  1. #1
    OK. Just discovered a curious behaviour, in fact completely different results on google.ca vs. google.com.

    i won't disclose the URL of my site here but I thought of having a -40 penalty filter until i checked google.ca
    Up there all the rankings are like before, page 1, i even get a lot more results for the keyword
    on google.com i obviously still got the filter being dumped on page 5
    when i check the datacenteres i get only page 5 results

    do you experience the same?
     
    lorocreative, Aug 24, 2008 IP
  2. GUESTID

    GUESTID Peon

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    #2
    Ever heard of geotargeting ?
     
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  3. lorocreative

    lorocreative Active Member

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    #3
    :)
    of course, but my site is not hosted in the .ca nor does it have only .ca backlinks.
    page 1 and page 5 is a huge difference to just blame it on geotargeting?
     
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    GUESTID Peon

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    Yeah
    Its not necessary to be having a .ca domain or having a .ca backlink specifically.
    A .com can also be included under ca.
     
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  5. TheVccMatey

    TheVccMatey Peon

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    #5
    Your site may be more valid for .ca users.
     
    TheVccMatey, Aug 24, 2008 IP
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    alexs464 Well-Known Member

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    #6
    I double that. Pretty much the same story on my end... It has always been like that.
     
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  7. lorocreative

    lorocreative Active Member

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    2 days ago i lost all keyword rankings which were on page 1 to page5/6/7
    on .com, any datacenter, any country domain (i didn't check .ca though)
    all results went down about -40, so I guessed of having received a penalty filter.
    others say: sandbox, change of algorithm, whatever, who knows
    but obviously the filter didn't apply to .ca
    i'm amazed
     
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    lightlysalted Active Member

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    this is where search engines can fall down, they will automatically decide on the most relevant area to present your site, but this may not always be the one you want. Obviously you've tried geo targetting, but I can't think of any other avenue to pursue.
     
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