Domains for regional websites
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Please take a look at 7city.com
This landing page contains links to:
and our US website which is also www.7city.com
It is programmed so:
If you are a first time user and type www.7city.com you go to the landing page above. If you then click on AMERICAS, it sets a cookie and directs you to http://www.7city.com/home . When you revisit www.7city.com in the future as the cookie is set you will be automatically sent to the AMERICAS website i.e http://www.7city.com/home.
Our US websites is nor performing well on organic ranking compared to other regional website. Is the above technique hindering our organic ranking in the US.
Also, I have been led to believe that you get a higher ranking if the domain is specific to a country. Is this true? Does 7city.com receive higher ranking than if I created it as 7city.us for example?
Many Thanks
Mark
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Hi James,
Thanks for your reply.
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I've just done this
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The websites hosted on Amaxon AWS. I thought it was where the domain was registered was important not where it was hosted.
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Not sure what you mean could you explain further?
Many Thanks
Mark
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Thanks John. Yes I haven't done this for bing yet.
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If you're having issues with Bing as well, the directions for geotargeting are here: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2011/03/01/how-to-tell-bing-your-website-s-country-and-language.aspx
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Hi,
Some factors you need to think about:
1. Set the GEO location in webmaster tools.
2. It may be worth using a USA based host for this website, I notice it is hosted in Dublin currently.
3. Are you using links from USA based sources of UK sources?
I hope these points assist further.
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Thanks Geoff I've done that. Hopefully it will make a difference.
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