How does ccTLD is treated by Google in their autority country

[naecfc]

Hi.I am verry curious if someone could explain , how are ccTLD's treated by the search engines?For egg. i have insure.cx
.CX being Christmas Island Australia
in .CX they speak english
Theyr autority country is Australia
Now.What i`m asking is; Will a website.cx be treated like website.com.au or website.net.au or website.org.au ?
Would it be the same to rank .CX in Australia search engines?
Thank you !
And prolly i`m not the first to ask himself this.I think lots of ppl will find it useful.

 

[Name Trader]

I think it might be the preferred domain in the Christmas Islands. But I think you will find Google would prefer the contents of .com (maybe other gtlds/cctlds*) over the .cx domain. Google is primarily interested in content. If you content is good on your .cx domain, it should rank well in the Christmas Islands. But, of course, if it's just parked, or with a mini-site it probably won't rank at all in the Christmas Islands.

* I saw an announcement recently that Google were beginning to classify some cctlds (such as .ws and .cc) to rank the same as the .com. I think there were about 8 or so gtlds/cctlds. I think the announcement was even here on this forum. Search for it in the Industry News forum.

 

[dcristo]

I think it might be the preferred domain in the Christmas Islands. But I think you will find Google would prefer the contents of .com (maybe other gtlds/cctlds*) over the .cx domain. Google is primarily interested in content. If you content is good on your .cx domain, it should rank well in the Christmas Islands. But, of course, if it's just parked, or with a mini-site it probably won't rank at all in the Christmas Islands.

I didn't realize there was a Google in the Christmas Islands. Why exactly do you mean by rank well in the Christmas Islands? I am sure I am not the only person scratching my head when you say this.

 

[naecfc]

I think it might be the preferred domain in the Christmas Islands. But I think you will find Google would prefer the contents of .com (maybe other gtlds/cctlds*) over the .cx domain. Google is primarily interested in content. If you content is good on your .cx domain, it should rank well in the Christmas Islands. But, of course, if it's just parked, or with a mini-site it probably won't rank at all in the Christmas Islands.

* I saw an announcement recently that Google were beginning to classify some cctlds (such as .ws and .cc) to rank the same as the .com. I think there were about 8 or so gtlds/cctlds. I think the announcement was even here on this forum. Search for it in the Industry News forum.

Yes but i don't want it to rank in Christmas Island, but as Australia is the autoruty country over Christmas Island (witch makes them pretty australian) i wanna know if it would rank the same as a .com.au will do in Australia.Not worldwide.
thanks

 

[RazorNF]

Interesting question. I would think that its treated like any other regular cctld, until over time Google sees sufficient numbers of traffic from the mainland, and backlinks from .com.au websites to send it up the rankings in google.com.au.

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* I saw an announcement recently that Google were beginning to classify some cctlds (such as .ws and .cc) to rank the same as the .com. I think there were about 8 or so gtlds/cctlds. I think the announcement was even here on this forum. Search for it in the Industry News forum.

Here it is http://www.namepros.com/industry-news/792357-google-now-treating-20-cctlds-generic.html

 

[Name Trader]

I didn't realize there was a Google in the Christmas Islands. Why exactly do you mean by rank well in the Christmas Islands? I am sure I am not the only person scratching my head when you say this.

.cx is the Christmas Islands cctld. Ranking well in any country, be it US or Christmas Islands, depends on your content and tld. If you have the tld .ro, the content is unlikely to rank in Google SERPS, in either US or Christmas Islands. But if your tld is .cx, you have a better chance of ranking well in Google SERPS in the Christmas Islands, provided your content is good. Hope that better explains what am talking about.

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Yes but i don't want it to rank in Christmas Island, but as Australia is the autoruty country over Christmas Island (witch makes them pretty australian) i wanna know if it would rank the same as a .com.au will do in Australia.Not worldwide.
thanks

I think as RazorNF stated. You probably need Google to recognize the Christmas Islands, is almost de facto part of Australia and to have a lot of Australian backlinks, before a .cx domain would rank well in Australia.

 

[naecfc]

.cx is the Christmas Islands cctld. Ranking well in any country, be it US or Christmas Islands, depends on your content and tld. If you have the tld .ro, the content is unlikely to rank in Google SERPS, in either US or Christmas Islands. But if your tld is .cx, you have a better chance of ranking well in Google SERPS in the Christmas Islands, provided your content is good. Hope that better explains what am talking about.

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I think as RazorNF stated. You probably need Google to recognize the Christmas Islands, is almost de facto part of Australia and to have a lot of Australian backlinks, before a .cx domain would rank well in Australia.

Good to hear that.Now from this i can understand that Insure.cx backed by alot of australian links will rank well for the keyword "insure" in Google Australia right?!So that makes it a verry valuable name INMO:imho: