{"id":697,"date":"2010-07-29T15:16:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T13:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tld.sc\/en\/?p=697"},"modified":"2020-01-13T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T09:00:11","slug":"google-treats-co-as-a-generic-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/2010\/07\/google-treats-co-as-a-generic-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Google treats .co as a generic extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"long_text\"><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">Google will soon treat the Colombian extension, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnamed.net\/en\/extensies\/Colombia\" target=\"_blank\">.co<\/a>, as a generic extension (gTLDs) rather than as a country extension (ccTLD). <\/span><span>Normally Google mainly makes sure that a ccTLD is highly ranked in the country where the ccTLD stands for. <\/span><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">If someone in Colombia is searching for some information about a particular topic through Google, Google will make sure that websites with a .co domain name that contains information covering the subject are ranked higher than sites from other countries.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">Besides the ccTLDs, you also got the gTLDs, the generic extensions such as .com, .net, .org &#8230; <\/span><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">These extensions can not be linked to a country and are seen by Google as international extensions. <\/span><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">Whether you&#8217;re from Belgium or from Canada looking for information about a particular topic, you make as much chance of ending up on a site that makes use of a generic extension.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">So now Google has decided to handle the .co domain, which is a country extension, as a generic extension. This will only happen if the content of the websit is globally targeted.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google will soon treat the Colombian extension, .co, as a generic extension (gTLDs) rather than as a country extension (ccTLD). Normally Google mainly makes sure that a ccTLD is highly ranked in the country where the ccTLD stands for. If someone in Colombia is searching for some information about a particular topic through Google, Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}