Comments on: Google and UK Blog Search Results

By: Mark White, Blog Consultant

Mark White, Blog Consultant — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:26:41 +0000

Scott, thanks for your comment. With regard to listing in only one country, I can see it from Google’s perspective. Although the WWW is global, a lot of people when they search for goods and services (rather than purely information) are looking for something local – so if Google’s aim is to give its users the most relevant results then I guess they need to be giving local companies priority which is what happens.

However, as you rightly point out, there are also a lot of us who, like yourself, work in a global economy and would like to approach it as such. So hopefully Google will develop their geographic targeting over time and we can start to get a better way of being listed globally.

Would be very happy to teamup on an article on this and will drop you a line. All the best.

By: Scott Frangos

Scott Frangos — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:45:59 +0000

Hello Mark – Thanks for the great article. You know, I don’t believe that the majority of BlogMasters, and WebMasters too realize just how “segregated” their sites are in Google search. I mean, a site like your own with good information certainly for English speaking bloggers, and probably bloggers in other countries who may translate your posts, should come up in many locations—yes? This is a “World” Wide Web, so Google’s decision to list only in one geographic search result seems arbitrary at best. And, much more should be done on the subject of getting listed globally. I’d like to post an article on it at WebHelperMagazine.com… maybe we can team up on it.

Yours, Scott
Scott Frangos, Managing Editor
WebHelperMagazine.com

By: Mark White, Blog Consultant

Mark White, Blog Consultant — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:37:00 +0000

Thanks for that David. Yes, of course the different data centres do cause some interesting “effects” as well though it’s sometimes difficult to know where to pin the blame. In fact, for the last week I had disappeared in SERPS for “Blog Consultant” but lo and behold back on page 1 today – could be DC issues or something else … I guess we’ll never know. Thanks again for the addition.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:02:26 +0000

Probably worth mentioning that each of Google’s TLD domains may actually be split into several data centres and these are not necessarily synchronised. There are potentially significant differences depending on which DC Google serves to your ISP (or DNS server).

It can be quite embarassing to brag about getting a client nice and high in Google only to discover that said client is looking at a different DC with a whole different set of SERPs.