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Just a heads up to anyone thinking of buy one of these: Google ranks your site according to the TLD. Buying an .es vanity domain will tank your results in the
by shiftpgdn 12y ago
Just a heads up to anyone thinking of buy one of these:
Google ranks your site according to the TLD. Buying an .es vanity domain will tank your results in the English speaking world.
- jpdlla 12y agoReally? Well that just sucks. I was thinking of buying a good one I saw.
- shaaaaawn 12y agoYa, that's the point. It's not hipster if you can google it
- kevinqi 12y ago"psh, I knew about that site before it was indexed"
- dangayle 12y agoSpeaking as a reformed SEO nerd, Google does take it into account as part of their overall rankings, but by no means does that mean that your site will tank. They also know that your site is in English and that all the links are coming from English domains, etc. Please source this. Plenty of popular domains using ccTLDs rank just fine.
- larrys 12y agoAlgorithm wise it would make sense that google would rank things like this as less worthy. For one thing most authoritative domains for pagerank purposes are not going to have these "hacks" they are going to have the usual suspects (.com .net .org .edu .gov .info .etc to name the obvious US ones). "Plenty of popular domains using ccTLDs rank just fine." "Plenty" is not a large number when you are talking about tens of millions of sites that don't do it this way.
- BorisMelnik 12y agocorrect - it is one signal that comes into play. but what about a .es domain registered on an English host with an IP shared with English sites, English content, and English visitors? Google will rank that all day for English queries.
- brokentone 12y agoShouldn't you also source yours, or does your anecdotal evidence outweigh his?
- dangayle 12y agoYou are completely right. It's easy to ignore the rafter in your own eye. My apologies.
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