Re:An Appeal to Google: Make ".io" a gccTLD
by StavrosK on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @11:00AM
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Oh that's odd, can anyone else confirm?
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I think this is the first time I've seen anyone whose question could be answered by RTFAing, but... RTFA.
http://clay.io/blog/an-appeal-to-google-make-io-a-gcctld/
> “If no information is entered in Webmaster Tools, we’ll rely largely on the site’s country domain”
"If no information is entered in Webmaster Tools" -> "It's possible to enter information into Webmaster Tools"
He later says:
> Even if ccTLDs and gccTLDs were treated exactly the same in terms of ranking, Google does not take into account the Geographic target set in Webmaster Tools. Own a “.io” domain and want to target towards US searchers? It doesn’t work.
With the evidence being that socket.io is only a 19th in a search for WebSockets, which I think so sorta shaky, but there you go.