A google ranking problem that has me puzzled
After advising others about SEO for close to 4 years, I have decided to walk the talk and try and get a website to rank on Google based on my SEO knowledge alone.** I have started working on a website for sample resumes and created 4-5 pages around 1 month back.
I was not able to follow up on the results due to problem with my internet. Yesterday I was checking the ranking of the website on Google. Following was the result for the keyword sample resumes
Google.com 204
Google.co.in 18
Google.co.in 9 (Region=India in advanced search operator)
I know that Google provides different results based on geographic preference of user. However what puzzles me is “how does Google know that jhingalala is India focused website?” Some of the basic parameters that Google uses to determine geographic preference of a website are
The TLD extension of the website .com is not specific to India
Server location My server is located in USA
Linking websites I doubt if I have any incoming links from India specific websites.
content on the page I have not included any geographic locations on the page
Then what makes google think that jhingalala is India specific website and will it hurt my efforts to make it rank on Google.com in future. I will appreciate your views on this topic.
** I have got some of my own sites quite good ranking on google. However most of that was natural without much concentrated SEO effort other than basic technical optimization
P.S: I seem to be getting much better understanding of SEO by trying to get this resume website to rank on Google. Will be sharing my experience on this project as I go along. Looking forward to your help and feedback on this topic.
I am just wondering if this will hurt the future chances of jhingalala ranking on google.com since
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Do you know you can specify the website target location/country in the Google Webmaster Central?
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Also, if you are trying to rank for “sample resume”, you have already lost the Domain Name Weightage since you have no relevant keywords in the Domain name itself.
As Tarun said check out your Google Webmaster tools for any geo-targetting settings that you might have done. This can override ccTLD and page contents.
waiting for more on this topic
its a Indian word thats why you rank on google india
Though I’m not an expert of SEO
but as mentioned by Tarun above that could be one very good reason.
Apart from It may depend on the location of search query…
You can verify it using some proxy tool….and confirm it…Make sure you delete your cookies…
Dear, I am also doing some SERP analysis like this.. and is using the keyword “Beautiful minds”, the same is an indian site (with “.in” as tld) but was able to rank well in google.com as well, as am getting a number of clicks from outside india. Am trying to quit that site and have concentrated n a SQA based site now. My experiments are still continuing with this site and yeah, within 24 hours i was able to get the site indexed and in the next 24 its coming in search!.. Do post any abnormalities like this..
Ps. That keyword is hard coz of that “film the beautiful mind” – but am trying to stop that site coz lost of focus – else have to maintain that as a personal site…
The reason for this is that your whois information has address of india