Official - G widens "pages from" net.

[glengara]

Looks like G has widened the "Pages From" net, not totally clear from G whether it'll include you in the "pages from" results, but Danny seems to think so...

Let Google Know The Geographic Location of Your Site

 

[davidbehan]

That's pretty cool!

 

[louie]

Lets see how this is going to work out for us.

 

[glengara]

I hope it has more to do with ad targeting, if it's is an easy pass into "pages from" results there'll be a sub-domain explosion....

 

[glengara]

Interestingly there seems to be a G-map tie-in, looks like IWF had its' finger on the pulse after all

 

[RedCardinal]

Only thing I don't like is that I can see no official announcement about this. I know that Vanessa Fox was the product manager for sitemaps while she was at Google, but I'm not sure if I'm willing to test out some of this for subdomains/subfolders until I hear that it works...

 

[glengara]

Post from a Googler in G groups would appear to confirm it's Kosher, though the details do need fleshing out...

 

[glengara]

It's now officially official

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog

Still unclear whether sub-domains/directories can be individually targeted....

 

[louie]

It seems that if you have a .ie domain, it wouldn't let you set the geographical location at all.

If you still try to set it as Ireland, it doesn't let you pass the Zip form field.
I don't know about sub-domains, but it seems that directories are considered part of the main domain tld. I could be wrong...

 

[glengara]

Still not terribly clear what the position with sub-domains/directories is, the official blog doesn't seem to cover that but from what Googler Jonathan Simon would appear to suggest they can be individually targeted to different countries.

Can't say I like the sound of that...

New Geographic Targeting - Google webmaster tools | Google Groups

 

[Redfly]

Can't say I like the sound of that...

New Geographic Targeting - Google webmaster tools | Google Groups

Me neither. I don't like the look of this. Is it my imagination or is there a huge possibility of webmasters mucking things up here?

 

[RedCardinal]

It seems that if you have a .ie domain, it wouldn't let you set the geographical location at all.

If you still try to set it as Ireland, it doesn't let you pass the Zip form field.
I don't know about sub-domains, but it seems that directories are considered part of the main domain tld. I could be wrong...

It's only available for non-geographic TLD. cTLD are not able to use this function apparently.

 

[glengara]

If a sub-domain needed a separate physical presence to be country targeted that wouldn't be too bad....