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Does Geo Tags affect your search rankings?
Published: 8 July, 2009
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These are good things to keep in mind if geographic information is important to your site. Have you used the Webmaster Tools Feature Cutts refers to?
Published: 8 July, 2009
Print EmailGoogle's Matt Cutts frequently posts useful tips for webmasters on the Google Webmaster Central YouTube channel.
Matt answers questions submitted by users "How do meta geo tags influence search results?"
Cutts says it's not something Google really looks at at all. He says they do look at:
- IP Address
- gTLD
- ccTLD
- gTLD
- ccTLD
He also points out that there's a feature in Google's Webmaster Tools where you can tell it that your site pertains to a specific country even though it's a dot com. "Typically the geotags that are in meta tags are not as useful and We don't tend to give those as much weight if at all," says Cutts. He suggests spending your time:
- trying to make sure you have the right domain name
- trying to make sure you have the right IP address if you can
- If you have content (even if it's geo-located) even if it's a sub-domain or a sub-directory, you can specify it in Google's Webmasster Tools. You can tell it that certain content is relevant for a particular country.
- trying to make sure you have the right IP address if you can
- If you have content (even if it's geo-located) even if it's a sub-domain or a sub-directory, you can specify it in Google's Webmasster Tools. You can tell it that certain content is relevant for a particular country.
These are good things to keep in mind if geographic information is important to your site. Have you used the Webmaster Tools Feature Cutts refers to?
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