Peter Askew saw this great (and rare) 3-letter URL on the TV show, Amazing Race. Of course, the drama between Google and the Chinese government has been as exciting as any reality show plotline and ended with Google pulling out of China after getting hacked. This URL now redirects to the Google Hong Kong site where results are not censored. Too bad, this was one Good G.url.
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Found on a Brit SEO blog:
Like the idea.
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/may-day-update-increases-long-tail-traffic/#idc-container
Interesting, I think so.
Not related to the May Day update but thought this was an interesting re keyword type in potential. http://www.newfoundnames.com/domain-sales/bigger-...
This was a North American site. Europe is trailing the U.S models and that includes most but not all SEO experts. Keywords will always be important, technology is restrained by culture / linguistics. I was thinking ? that if a small group of TLD keywords in were obtained in one area of related commerce say in the emerging German / French / Italian language insurance markets :
(branded dot com / country code) the prices would still be low compared to the U.S. Each keyword could be an authoritative site under the keyword domain but each site could be used by the same price comparison platform brand. This would create a very cost affective way of creating a new brand whilst retaining the long term SEO value of the keywords.
In effect if autoinsurance had included = accident insurance pet insurance life insurance working as a syndicated group group the SEO value & new brand value would be a perfect match.
Patrick your thoughts ?
This URL now redirects to the Google Hong Kong site where results are not censored. Too bad, this was one Good G.url.
.ch is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Switzerland.
Would I be wrong to assume that if the Chinese government chooses not to renew Google's licence, their next step would be to black list Google.com.hk in their firewall.
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