g1smd
msg:4364881 | 5:07 pm on Sep 20, 2011 (gmt 0) |
WMT settings have only ever mapped requests to whole countries as far as I remember.
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smithaa02
msg:4364889 | 5:36 pm on Sep 20, 2011 (gmt 0) |
The weird thing is I've seen a number of screenshots that show certain individuals can from WMT set their specific location down to the address.
Examples:
[searchengineland.com...]
[googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com...]
So in someway or at some point in time it was possible...
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indyank
msg:4364899 | 5:49 pm on Sep 20, 2011 (gmt 0) |
may be, but it doesn't make much sense to provide geo targeting at the level of your street or home address...
my guess is google would have only considered the country even then...
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rainborick
msg:4364906 | 6:02 pm on Sep 20, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Maybe they were testing ways to connect Google Places/Local to WMT accounts.
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smithaa02
msg:4364907 | 6:03 pm on Sep 20, 2011 (gmt 0) |
For one my favorite keyword phrases I like to change the search location (in the left column) and watch the results change all over the place. Obviously, if google thinks you are a local, they will give you 'local results'. The huge question is what determines whether google assigns you to search region X as a local result or not?
To that end I was wondering if some of these websites were using something like an expanded geotargeted option...but this appears not to be the case?
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