Video: Matt Cutts On Should I use ccTLDs for sites not targeted to those countries?

Google’s Matt Cutts head of search spam has put out a new webmaster help video comes from Andy, NY on Jul 29, 2013 . Cutts discusses it is a good idea for website to use ccTLD (country code top level domain) as a novelty domain.

And the Question Is mentioned below..?

As memorable .COM domains become more expensive, more developers are choosing alternate new domains like .IO and .IM – which Google geotargets to small areas. Do you discourage this activity?

Here is the video for you all to watch:

RT @mattcutts: New webmaster video! “Should I use ccTLDs for sites not targeted to those countries?” http://t.co/OOmek7uawF

— Alok Raghuwanshi (@araghuwanshi6) July 31, 2013

Video Transcription

Google’s Matt Cutts says. “Because you can pick any domain you choose, but in case you choose a domain like .ES or .IT because you think that you could make a unique domain like GOOGLE.IT (‘Google It’), you know, or something like that, be aware that most domains at a country level do pertain to that specific country, and so we think that that content is going to be intended mainly for that country.”

Here’s a list of the domains Google considers generic.

Checked with reference to the documents mentioned below…

• Geotargetable domains – https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922
• Webmaster Help Forum – http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters
• YouTube Google Webmaster: http://www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp
• Webmaster Central Blog: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/
• Webmaster Central: http://www.google.com/webmasters/

I saw this news on Matt Cutts on Twitter and then “SHARE” it on Google+…I received excellent information,  he explained this point very well….!!

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