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Matt Cutts Video on Dupe Content and International Sites

Posted in: Geotargeting by Richard Hearne on September 29, 2009

Nice short video from Matt on how to publish same language content for multiple countries AND avoid dupe content filters.

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Yahoo.ie Launches 2 Years Later, And Still Not Irish

Posted in: Geotargeting by Richard Hearne on September 25, 2009

Interesting to see that Yahoo! finally built a dedicated Irish hompeage on Yahoo.ie. Interesting that is until you go 1 click further and not everything is at it should be…

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Bing.com’s Language/Country Handling Bug Explained

Posted in: Geotargeting by Richard Hearne on August 24, 2009

While messing around with bing I found some odd handling of country/language settings. Doing some more digging over weekend, and it does indeed appear to be a bug that affects Chrome users. When you select a country, and then visit an alternative bing country site bing gets confused when displaying results. In the following example […]

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Google Opens More ccTLDs to GWT Geotargeting Tool

Posted in: Geotargeting by Richard Hearne on August 19, 2009

It appears that Google is slowly relaxing the rules around geotargeting of ccTLDs. Personally I don’t think this will help, but for webmasters stuck on vanity ccTLD it’s probably a God-send.

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Is Google Introducing Major Changes To Organic Geotargeting?

Posted in: Geotargeting by Richard Hearne on August 3, 2009

Organic geotargeting affects every site owner. How search engines, and Google in particular, handle geotargeting is one of the most important factors to be considered in SEO. And in this post I’m outlining some tests I observed that suggest big changes to geotargeting may be on their way. This will affect your website, so please keep reading.

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More Evidence of Google Geotargeting Gone Bad

Posted in: Geotargeting by Richard Hearne on July 27, 2009

I was searching ‘pages from Ireland’ looking for a supplier of load-balancing routers. Google for some odd reason thought the most relevant result was from a French business story on Yahoo!s FR Biz site. Not good.

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The Future of Google Geotargeting and ‘pages from’ Searches

Posted in: Geotargeting by Richard Hearne on July 13, 2009

I’ve been watching lots of change over at Google the past few weeks, and some of these changes lead me to think that geotargeting, both the tool within GWT and the way we search on Google, is about to change.

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Google Local Business Center & How to Rank for Local Search

Posted in: Geotargeting by Richard Hearne on May 25, 2009

A follow-up post explaining some Google Local search results in Irish SERPs, along with reference material describing best practice for boosting local search rankings for your business.

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Google Local One Box Listings Appear – Biggest Change to Irish Search?

Posted in: Geotargeting by Richard Hearne on May 20, 2009

Google Local Search One Box listings have finally landed in Google.ie. I’ve written up some info on what these are and how you can get your site listed ion Local search results.

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Google.ie showing UK Results?

Posted in: Geotargeting by Richard Hearne on May 16, 2008

Why oh why do you give us UK results when we’re sitting here in Ireland?

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