Comments on: Is localisation harming your search engine performance?

By: David Rosam

David Rosam — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:17:53 +0000

@Chris

Interesting thought, that. It could work if I published Dangerous Thinking in a number of languages.

As it stands, in English, I’d have to write unique content for each subdomain, or Google would do its best to ignore the duplicated content.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:23:35 +0000

One question, or proposition if you like…

Wikipedia uses subdomains in order to provide localised versions… they perform well in all localised search engines. Perhaps providing a similar service for your blog, and subsequently getting localised links to the localised content, would help you better?

By: Dangerous Thinking » Google’s search engine ignores Google Local

Dangerous Thinking » Google’s search engine ignores Google Local — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:44:38 +0000

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By: David Rosam

David Rosam — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:29:25 +0000

Hi Kelvin

Switching domain is not really an option as this site has a good number of mature links, having been on the Web since January 2002 - actually, a little before that. Even with a 301 redirect, I’ll lose all those links.

So switching hosts is what needs to be done - although Paul Silver has another suggestion that we’re trying now.

By: kelvin newman

kelvin newman — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:29:40 +0000

You’re right if you have a non-us TLD e.g. .com. net. org and US hosting you will never rank in the pages from the UK section of Google as they have no reason to think you are in the UK.

Switching hosts should do the trick though you could also buy a .co.uk and 301 your current .dangerous-thinking.com if you are really happy with you current host…