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I’ve just been doing a little SERP’s research on LS, when I’m searching from my ip address I’m seeing some of my pages rank really well for some competitive search terms, but when changing ip addresses to an IP located in the US the page that was ranked has completely disappear, it hasn’t dropped it looks like its been removed from the serp’s completely I eventually find another page of my website that has the search term within the pages content ranking in the 200+.
As a coincidence on the same search term the results shown are 1-9 rather than 1-10 and I’m wondering if this might be glitch on the SERP’s page or have I been removed for this search term, my page that’s disappear is index and appears in both a site: search and the url only search so I’ve not been removed from the index.
Cache date of the page is a little older than I would have expected 8th of Feb. but viewing other pages that still rank in both ip ranges I’ve got older cached pages ranking in competitive terms.
Can any one shed any more light on this?
Vimes.
[SIDEBAR]... all these TLAs... for me "LS" stands for "LookSmart"... but I'm assuming we've changed that to Live Search along the line. Maybe they'll find a cooler brand name oneday. (I hear people say "MSN" alot).[/SIDEBAR]
Anyway...
AFAIK Live's Geographical targeting is quite different to Google's. There are four factors that I believe affect the serps based on location. They are:
1. They IP location of the user (big influence)
2. The IP location of the Web server (less influence)
3. The TLD coultry domain of the website (not thought much about this influence... presumably significant)
4. The user query (Either VERY important or nil importance)
So... if a person in Australia types in "News in London" then UK sites are more likely to be in his results for him than if he types in "lemon trees" which have no implication of a region in the query.
So you can try to move the server to US hosting if that's your prime market.
So... if a person in Australia types in "News in London" then UK sites are more likely to be in his results for him than if he types in "lemon trees" which have no implication of a region in the query.
Exactly,, from the US ip range the result has been physically removed, i would have thought that as I’m hosted in the region that I would be fine, why show a website in the US talking about a product that’s 1000’s of miles away and remove a page from the SERP’s that’s hosted in the area of the search term (outside of the US)
Its not happening on all searches as on other search terms (again outside of the US) my pages are ranking where they have always been.
I still see the same bug happening on the Web results 1-9 of 23,300,000
And my page appears to be the one that disappear from the 10 results that should be shown.
I hope that this is just it, if I don’t reappear when the Web results show the correct 10 results I’ll look in to it further.
Vimes.
I'll try to point a person from MS here to see if they can shed light.
