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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Starting todayGoogle Webmaster Toolshelps you better control the country association of your content on a per-domain, per-subdomain,
or per-directory level. The information you give us will help us determine how your site appears
in our country-specific search results, and also improves our search results for geographic
queries.
We currently only allow you to associate your site with a single country and location. If your
site is relevant to an even more specific area, such as a particular state or region, you can tell
us that. Or let us know if your site isn't relevant to any particular geographic location at all.
If no information is entered in Webmaster Tools, we'll continue to make geographic associationslargely based on the top-level domain (for example, .co.uk or .ca) and the IP of the webserverfrom which the context was served.
For example, if we wanted to associate www.google.com with Hungary:
But you don't want www.google.com/webmasters/tools" associated with any country...
This feature is restricted for sites with a country code top level domain, as we'll always
associate that site with the country domain. (For example, google.ru will always be the version
of Google associated with Russia.)
Note that in the same way that Google may show your business address if you register your
brick-and-mortar business with theGoogle Local Business Center,
we may show the information that you give us publicly.
This feature was largely initiated by your feedback, so thanks for the great suggestion. Google is
always committed towards helping more sites and users get better and more relevant results. This
is a new step as we continue to think about how to improve searches around the world.
We encourage you to tell us what you think in the Webmaster Tools section of ourdiscussion group.
Written by Amanda Camp, Webmaster Tools and Trystan Upstill, International Search Quality Team
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