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Would be great to get the whole .TV ranking issue brought to Matt's attention

 

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If you really develop .TV, you will care about this enough to bring it to matt's attention.

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[antonis12]

I think i have seen a previous Matt Cutts post where he specifically references that they treat .tv as a gTLD

 

[MrRhee]

I think i have seen a previous Matt Cutts post where he specifically references that they treat .tv as a gTLD

correct.

.TV is treated as a GTLD.

Site owners can login to their Google Webmasters account and set their .TV domain for global.
Google Webmaster Central
Site Configuration: Settings: Geographic target
Google allows you to set any target country or simply UNLISTED which is global. modify this only after knowing what you are doing. But with other country code domains, you are RESTRICTED and can only target that actual country.

So yes, Google does see .TV as a GLOBAL TLD like .COM, not a ccTLD for only Tuvalu.

Now, if your site doesn't rank well... welcome to the Internet

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[Vito]

Just voted.

We're up to 6 now.

Thx, great question.

 

[gutsnglory]

7!

 

[Steven]

I've talked to a Google Web Analyst before, and he said that .TV is treated the same as gTLD, and there is no discrimination in ranking.

 

[antonis12]

I've talked to a Google Web Analyst before, and he said that .TV is treated the same as gTLD, and there is no discrimination in ranking.

correct. the one thing to keep in mind is that one factor that goes into ranking is domain age and many .tv domains do not have the same age as somewhat equivalent .net or .coms as a lot have only been registered recently. this probably accounts for some of the discrepancy people might see in them taking longer for them to rank.

 

[WEEarraPEOPLE]

correct. the one thing to keep in mind is that one factor that goes into ranking is domain age and many .tv domains do not have the same age as somewhat equivalent .net or .coms as a lot have only been registered recently. this probably accounts for some of the discrepancy people might see in them taking longer for them to rank.

Totaly agree on that.
Age matters so much more than many people imagine.

.Tv's dont rank half as bad as many people here think or state, usually there is a very obvious reason why their sites are not ranking and lack of age is most common. IMHO

Try using a .tv that has been on Google for 5 years or so, has some backlinks and i'm sure you will do just fine.
I personally find .tv's are as easy to rank as any extension though it seems to take a bit longer with any ext outside .com which seems to get an immediate boost right after being indexed for 1st time.

All purely based on MY experiences developing.

Thats my monthly post done, im off now for a wee vino

 

[DnEbook]

correct.

.TV is treated as a GTLD.

Site owners can login to their Google Webmasters account and set their .TV domain for global.
Google Webmaster Central
Site Configuration: Settings: Geographic target
Google allows you to set any target country or simply UNLISTED which is global. modify this only after knowing what you are doing. But with other country code domains, you are RESTRICTED and can only target that actual country.

So yes, Google does see .TV as a GLOBAL TLD like .COM, not a ccTLD for only Tuvalu.

Now, if your site doesn't rank well... welcome to the Internet

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interesting , i did not know how to change the settings , thanks , will be adding rep for this info and the reference to what a troll is :O

happy enough to vote as well

 

[DU]

Site owners can login to their Google Webmasters account and set their .TV domain for global.
Google Webmaster Central
Site Configuration: Settings: Geographic target
Google allows you to set any target country or simply UNLISTED which is global. modify this only after knowing what you are doing. But with other country code domains, you are RESTRICTED and can only target that actual country.
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I'm glad this is optional because I was worried that my domain WhatToDoWhenYourIslandIsSinking.TV wasn't going to get to the right audience - the Tuvalu people. Luckily I can set the geographic target to ensure they get to it.

I know it's a long tail domain but there's money in those, I hope.

I would have thought that by this point any algorithm used by the top engines wouldn't really be impacted that much by the cc in ccTLD basing the results more on analytical results of links and clicks. In other words, co.uk and .de focus on co.uk and .de because that's what the end users do. I would imagine that there is an initial bias that then gets corrected through usage.

 

[claudedauman]

Just voted.

 

[Jaco]

Totaly agree on that.
Age matters so much more than many people imagine.

Domain age matters MUCH LESS than 'most people' (domainers) think.
If Gs algo is a 1000 point system, Domain Age is maybe a 5- trivialy insignificant in the grand scheme- and once you're out of the sandbox, it means next to nothing anyway.

People who think that 'domain age' means a lot are people who would fail a beginners logic class.

The reason TVs might seem 'hard to rank' is because you're usually talking about some epic keyword.tv, in a keyword space that has had its content standard-bearers established since the 90's. Yeah, if you own "France.tv", it's going to be a bonafide motherfucker trying to rank for "France" with menial content, no links and no substantial trustrank. This has nothing to do with the age of the domain, but rather, everything to do with every single other factor that goes into Gs arbitrating SERP rank.

"Domainers" are quick to make cheap correlation=causation conclusions based on totally ephemeral factors pertaining to the domain itself, when really, its all about the content, age of that content, links and trustrank.

To be sure, if tomorrow, the nation of France decided to base their official government website on a .tv, that .tv would rank on Page 1 within 24 hours. Conversely, if Davey Domainer thinks he's getting on Page 1 of SERP for "France" with France.tv by tossing up a Youtube scraper, adding some bogus "blog articles" and getting BLs from Mongolian link farms, he's in for a rude awakening and when he blames the age of the domain, he's wrong.