Yahoo New Zealand, how to get indexed?

kotemaori · #1 (**permalink**) 10-13-2005, 07:24 PM

I have a .com.au site ranked 1 on Yahoo.com, 1 on Yahoo.com.au, but nary a mention on Yahoo.co.nz

Why wont Yahoo NZ show this site when they show sites that rank lower on both other Yahoos, have lower Page rankings, no content to speak of and arent as relevant

Can someone offer a solution to getting an Australian site shown on Yahoo NZ, and for that matter, Google NZ. the keywords are all Australian related (people search australia, people finder australia)

cbp · #2 (**permalink**) 10-14-2005, 12:36 PM

You have a .au domain name hosted in the USA with Australian keywords -- I can't see how any search engine would want to return your site in a New Zealand search

CBP

kotemaori · #3 (**permalink**) 10-14-2005, 09:43 PM

you cant see why any search engine would want to list the site, maybe because a huge number of new zealanders live in australia, and there is a strong demand for our services there. the site appears on many other googles and yahoos, yet nz is our nearest neighbour as far as yahoo is concerned and they will list similar sites that are of a lower standard, some are affiliate sites, and all are usually ranked well below this site. may i have a constructive reply please

Steven1976a · #4 (**permalink**) 10-14-2005, 11:40 PM

I think your a bit defensive about your site. I think the answer by cbp is very constructive.

As far as I can see your site does not mention New Zealand on your homepage, so how can the search engines know that it is relevant for New Zealand.

Okay granted that there may be a lot of people from New Zealand living in Australia but the search engines are not interested in that. There are a lot of British living in Australia, Asia, Middle East etc........... but if i have a .co.uk domain i wouldnt expect to gain high rankings in Australia, Asia, Middle East, just because there are a lot of brits living there.

espectations · #5 (**permalink**) 10-15-2005, 04:38 AM

Here is something that I tried - it is a lot of work but it seems to be working over here in South Africa.

I developed seperate web sites with one targeting the local market's needs and registered a .co.za, the other targeting the International market with a .com domain

smswarehouse.com is hosted on a server in North America and targets the International community

smswarehouse.co.za is hosted on a server in South Africa

The content is completely different as the local market has other needs that my international clients

It is a lot of work but it seems to be working well

There is another reason for this too - some of our local search engines just do not accept .com URL's - a bit limiting Also, in my personal experience I found our local search engines working completely different than the International search engines - I think it would be fair to say that our search technology is a bit behind in times.

I did this as an experiment to see if it is making a difference - it did as far as my local market is concerned.

Whether it will work somewhere else is hard to say. You will have to test it.

Besides the above, having a .co.za domain name registered and owned by me protects my brand locally.

kotemaori · #6 (**permalink**) 10-16-2005, 08:43 PM

Thanks for that help, its actually the path I'm going down. i have the .co.nz domain purchased and the design done. Just seems an extraordinary step to have to take to get a relevant site listed.

However, I still cant see why google uk or yahoo uk will list a .com.au site but yahoo .co .nz wont look at it. not only that but other yahoo sites list it without a mention of any country except Australia on the Index page.