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[webguild] 1 Million Dot .CA Domains Registered: Dot-ca now reportedly ranks seventeenth in the list of internet domain name registry. Would be interesting to know how many of those domain name owners also registered dot-com (.com) versions of their sites and redirect to their .

 [Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing] SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 14, 2008: Catch the brainwaves of Melanie Nathan aka Crash and status-girl; A Small Business Marketing Success Story: John Tuggle, Guitar Teacher;

 [searchnewz: Top Story RSS Feed] Google's Webmaster Central Live Chat A Roaring Success!: If you have a country-specific TLD, you are inherently already targeting a region. If you have a generic TLD, you can use the geo location feature in Webmaster Tools to specify either a sub domain or subdirectory as targeted to a country.

[Untitled] Drilling Down On Local 08”²: There are many domainers that are not fans of the geo domain industry, and do not believe it will amount to anything.  Many feel it is only a small niche of the domain industry.  I forecast that it will become the domain industry in the near future as the market evolves.  Nothing stays the same, especially on the internet.  $147 billion by 2012 should paint a clear picture of this evolution that is occuring on the internet.  Even the most generic name wants to be local.  It is now mandatory that you deliver local information on generic domains.  Consumers expect nothing less, and the online market validates this statement.  

 [Praveen: SEO, SEM, Online Marketing] Local SEO: then it is essential to optimize a website for ranking high on Delhi related keywords and most importantly very soon… for Local Ranking time is a essential criteria….

 [Original Signal - Transmitting SEO] SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 14, 2008: Catch the brainwaves of Melanie Nathan aka Crash and status-girlA Small Business Marketing Success Story: John Tuggle, Guitar TeacherGoogle Now Fills Out Forms & Crawls ResultsLocal SEOâ€â™s Share Geo Location Tips From Around The .

[Search Engine Optimization] Introduction: When you do a Google query using the phrase “search engine optimization”, guess what website comes up currently on the top of the first page. You guessed it, Wikipedia’s definition and discussion on website search engine optimization, not a search engine optimization company.

[Untitled] Are Geo Domains Overrated?: However, many fail to realize that geo domains represent the future of the domain industry, which is domain development.  There are several of people who are curious as to why no information has been made public on how to make mega revenue from a geo domain.  The truth is, it is a protected trade that is shared among inner circles.  This information is guarded because of the threat that exists of substandard geo domains using the the same strategies to take market share from established prime geo domain markets.  This is why these very profitablestrategies are well guarded secrets that are very profitable and kept on the downlow.  However, it is imperative that this information becomes public to ensure the industry reaches its full potential.  (This will be for another future post)  

 [pagetraffic SEO Blog] Google Webmaster Central Live Chat Successful!: Webmaster: Related to the robots.txt issue - if you've placed a no robots tag on every page of a site and a disallow for all in the robots.txt file, but the home page still shows up in the top 10 for a competitive keyword, how else can

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