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if not, has it always been this way that they may not?
And then geo-targeting, which I believe is a newer idea.
Who thinks the musical chairs with the different data centers is part of Google's plan for varying results
and who thinks that the datacenters will still all align with more similar results?
for instance:
i note that when i search (all searches are on www.) where i live in so. cal, on a particular term we are ranked on, it's with a given number of listing results of lets say 4MM. now, when i track a google referral URL for the same keyword that found our site, but on a regional index, the total population of results is 1/2, or 2MM, and we show up much higher ranked... i.e. the less competition, the better our site seems to do in the ranking of results.......
however, this doesn't seem like it was always the case. or at least this extreme. we are clearly doing much better in other parts of the world, which seem to have smaller google databases to draw from (at least now)..
we are a worlwide product, however the most important traffic for us is stateside, which seems to be the most competitive google database as well.....
i dont know if i am making much sense in what i am trying to convey... that these days if two different days keyphrase reports on google match up phrase by phrase, it doesn't necessarily mean the days were of equal quality traffic. it seemed more apples to apples once a upon a time, than it does today.
put another way. i would rather be on page 4 of www. that i know and love, and know i am showing up everywhere on page four just like that, than position number one in some markets that are not as good for us to show up in. and these days i think this kind of things is happening more....
however, i could be all wet.
it's more about changes in the way google is showing results period... and that does 10 hits on a keyphrase today, mean the same things as 10 hits on the same keyphrase before G.C...
before Google Change.
The SERPS were different. We decided that its a geography thing.
Search for "web page" hit the enter key at 11PM on the nose (EST)
Problem is Googleguy will read this and add the old Algo 20 sec's before 11. :)
But it is interesting as we could all report back where we are located etc and see what we can figure out.
If anything it would be interesting as long as the plan is not sabotaged. (sp?)
Hollywood
i asked a moderator in email if we could do a test on this and post the keyphrase being searched and the serp results we could all compare from different parts of the world...
figuring search on Googleguy, and isoldated a webmaster.com SERP from the search which is sure to be close to the top. haha
never heard back from them, so i presume it's ok to do a public display of this type.
