Shane Jones Old Blog

When I first bought this site many years ago i was told that my .com would not rank well in the UK by a few people. I was sure that it would not be the case. And it isn’t. At the moment the proof is here

Searching for Shane Jones in Google.com brings up this site in 11th position. The same search in Google.co.uk brings it up in the number 1 spot. And the UK market has more search results for Shane Jones than the .com. Rankings correct as of the time of this post.

The reason it performs like this in the UK market, i believe, is because of the Geographic Targeting that I have set up in the Google Webmaster Tools.

My site has its .com associated to the UK, if your site is already a .co.uk this value is automatically set and cannot be changed. If your site does not have a country code on the Top Level Domain Name, then in here you can set an association for any country where Google has a country specific Search Engine.

Shane

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