Google Confirms Ranking Boost For Country Code Domains
Google's Gary Illyes confirmed that country code domain names perform better in search results because Google gives an edge to local sitesA lot of people want to rank better in a specific country and one of the best practices for doing that is to register a domain name that is specific to the country. Google will give it a ranking boost over other sites that are not explicitly targeting a specific country.
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