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[anthonyparsons.com]

This may fall across several forum topics, not real sure; so when in doubt, place in miscellaneous. I will try and explain this the best I can.

I am curious how other SEO's market one search engine that provides two different results to their customers. Example: Google Australia; .au or web results can be obtained. Both results are completely different. Obviously the web results being the more competitive than the regional.

Now, if you tell a client that their website will rank in 10 SE's, do we agree that would be 10 individual SE's? On the other-hand, do some SEO's count the regional as one result and web as another to meet there 10 quota when dealing with regional domains, marketing Internationally? ie. achieve #20 Google .au & web results, that leave 8 SE's to go!

I look at one engine being exactly that; one engine. However, the more I think about this, with one engine supplying two completely different results, does it count as two engines and would it be ethical?

Obviously, if your website has no interest in other regions, then this would not count, as you would only want the specific regional listing, whatever that may be. As stated, what if you hold a regional domain and market Internationally? Is this then correct to sell one engine as two listing out of say your target of 10? Professionalism, Honesty, Integrity, Laziness or Worse?

Edited by anthonyparsons.com, 23 December 2003 - 11:53 AM.

[GeordieSEO]

Hmm tricky one,

I would tend to tell a client that they would be doing well in both as they are essentially different engines, if international sales are important to a client.(Many of my clients are very localised e.g. I'm doing some work on a childrens nursery site at the moment and that is obviously a very localised service).

As far as promoting our services goes I would be more inclined to list the search engines once and mention both .com and .co.uk versions (or .au and .co.nz) in your case.

Most of the major engines in their .com results do some filtering on their results based on there the search submitter is based.