Registering A Geographocally Specific Page With Google

It's aimed to Australia, (with Adense!), do I register it with Google.co.au

[send2paul]

Okay, I'll be loading up a page to my website with Australian content - because I want Australian Adsense ads to appear on it.

Now, I know, given time, that the Google spiders will find the page anyway and rank it from there. However, everypage that I have, I have SEO'd it appropriately for what I want to achieve, and registered each one with Google.com - treating it as a separate webpage. Whether or not this has increased the ranking/spidering process from Google, I'm not too sure, (perhaps someone could answer that as well).

So, the main question is: If I want Australian ads to appear on the page, (which they will do by the heavily weighed Australian content on there), will I stand a better chance of this occuring if I register the page with Google.com.au as opposed to Google.com?

Thanks in advance.

[leadegroot]

No, thats completely irrelevent.
The ads will be appropriate to your visitors, so when Australians (or, more accurately, people browsing using an IP Address which Google has identified as placing them in Australia - but thats quite long winded :)) look at your page they will see ads from companies who either asked for their ads to be seen by the whole world or by australians

and, yes, this does mean that not all your page visitors will see the same ads that you see.

Note also that the normal google bot process isn't relevant to your ads - there is a special adsense bot that looks into what ads to display. I normally refresh a new page 2 or 3 times and suddenly start seeing on-target ads.
But this is unrelated to the page ranking in the search results.

And for your other question - submitting a page doesn't really help you get ranked. Its much more important that the page is linked from pages that are currently indexed.

HIH!

[send2paul]

leadegroot

Thanks very much for that concise and accurate reply. I think that about clears up my confusion on this one :)

I didn't realise that there was a separate Google Adsense bot to index pages as well. Does this bot re-index pages at roughly the same rate, (and perhaps around the same time?), as the "normal" Google indexing bots, i.e. about once every 4 - 5 weeks?

[leadegroot]

4-5 weeks? You aren't seeing the bot very much! Build more links to your site for Google to think you are more important and worth checking for changes :) I see the main googlebot through daily.
I see the adsense bot less than I see the main bot, but the not all my pages are monetised. No idea what the common experience is.
I had assumed (but can't back up) that the adsense bot comes through on a completely different algorithm, and thus timing, remembering that it is only there to check the theme of your page hasn't changed.

[send2paul]

Ha - I've got really no idea whee bots come & go actually - I just assumed that pages were indexed every month? Obviously not :)

[leadegroot]

thinking about it - I generally see 99% of each of my sites re-crawled each month, a lot of the pages multiple times, but the bot is on my sites every day, just not every single page.
/robots.txt gets hit constantly. The home page gets hit probably everyday. and so on in decreasing order as the path gets longer.
Just my experience :)