Does Google Downgrade non US sites?

I have a site which dropped off Google dramatically a couple of weeks ago
(even after following the best advice). I'm wondering even though my site is
a .com does Google downgrade non US sites?
hanz

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 14:25:10 +0000 (UTC), "Hansen J."
<JHansen (AT) hg8 (DOT) btinternet.com> wrote:

I have a site which dropped off Google dramatically a couple of weeks ago
(even after following the best advice). I'm wondering even though my site is
a .com does Google downgrade non US sites?
hanz

I have a few sites with very similar content and it is a .co.uk site,
hosted in England, that shows up highest on most searches. All my
other sites are .com hosted in the US. So, I don't think google are
downgrading non US sites.


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I have no idea, suffice to say that many .my or .co.th sites never
seem to appear, though that no doubt is because 99% of website owners
outside of those who visit these boards have any single clue
whatsoever about 'Florida' or 'Austin' or whatever. So you search for
a car rental in Langkawi Malaysia and you get sites from other
countries that promote car rental companies that do not even have a
branch in Malaysia, you test it out and it askes you type of car, they
are US car descriptions, it aks you which rental company and it
includes many US companies, again, no representation at all, so you
ask for 'anyhting', what does it tell you? - Sorry, no cars available
on that day.
Try to find a 'local' car rental company, forget it, does not appear
anywhere.
Unless they know all these tricks and adjustments their sites
disappear.

I agree on 'abandoned sites', I have seen Pos 2 and 3 help for some
terms for sites that are 4 years old, and not a single update, quoting
an even in 98 or 99, all the information is out of date, yet, the page
sits there.

A point about links, we all know unless you have thousands of links
you have a problem, so what happens when a site bas3ed in Asia has any
links in the local language, the tags wouldn't be recognised would
they? Expecting some small hotel owner, car business or whatever in
Malaysia to start learning about back links, alt tags, inbound links
etc, forget it, won't happen. Most people have shifted to Cari and
other local searches now anyhow.

In my experience yes.

They rejected my submission because it wasn't in US $ and there was an
option to register and receive a 5% discount from all future orders. They
read this as HAVING to register and not optional.

I emailed them and received no answer. IMO they are xenophobic and self
serving and now work on the basing that you get what you get and have done
with it. Most searches are really a waste of time with very little searching
gets me what I look for from other sites. In the end I use Yellow Pages!


Duncan

"Hansen J." <JHansen (AT) hg8 (DOT) btinternet.com> wrote

I have a site which dropped off Google dramatically a couple of weeks ago
(even after following the best advice). I'm wondering even though my site
is
a .com does Google downgrade non US sites?
hanz