Sunday, August 3, 2014

Contribution of Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) in SEO

The problem
With the .com domain becoming more expensive and rare, domain holders are looking for new cheap and effective Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for expanding the reach of their business. However, the choice of such domains affects search results on the search engine pages and the results are more locally visible granting them exposure to a particular geographical locality. This may lead to restricted business prospects and market growth often limiting them within their own geographical area due to wrong ccTLD. Hence the choice of ccTLD is a major issue for any business owned firm as Google results tend to keep the result with such domains from the same region upwards.

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Significance of ccTLD based SEO
The ccTLD based SEO brings more benefits and profit making implications. A ccTLD tends to stress the brand entity in a particular geographical area. Therefore, it should be used to target a particular area that has good customer presence and product demand.

In addition, creating various ccTLDs will lead to organized and distributed traffic over multiple sites. Therefore, the bandwidth limitations of different sites of the same organization can be relaxed with better traffic management. Multiple ccTLD associated with same firm can also lead to multiple search results in the same search results.

Google search is based on generic ccTLDs. Countries where Google is not a popular search engine, the suitability and accessibility via other search engines should be calculated taking a different approach. Choosing a single good domain that can be searched from various geographical locations is a good move and are economic too.

Risks with improper ccTLD
Wrong practice of ccTLD in domain name can have heavy and critical consequences. Websites with a respective domain of this kind tend to target the customers in that particular area. Mismatch in this can lead to confusion leading to decline in brand value in that geographical area hampering the local market in the area or giving a wrong picture of the business.

The content of the websites over various ccTLDs should be checked for redundancy and care should be taken to make them customer centric to that particular region alone. Also, the search results in a particular area may not show the service even if it is present in that area leading to heavy toll on the business. It can also lead to unwanted traffic onto the site and limit its bandwidth capabilities.

Choosing a perfect ccTLD for SEO is a vital concern and should be adopted judiciously. Uncalculated moves can lead to unwarranted results and cumulative losses in the long run. You need to check Google list of generic ccTLD signifying the search results and targeted geographical areas for each domain. An efficient and wisely chosen ccTLD can lead to good business in multiple geographical locations whereas a miscalculated step can lead to diminishing of the existing market itself. 

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