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Tel Powered Extensions - the undiscovered SEO benefits.. A couple of weeks since creating some tel powered extensions (http://telpowered.com) we were asked to report back to our customers on the SEO benefits provided. Our findings were very interesting and are summarised below for your reading pleasure... Report 1: --------------- Keyword: nylimo Dot Tel: nylimo.tel Tel Powered Extension: nylimo.tel.cm When you search for nylimo in Google you get: 1. The tel powered extension http://nylimo.tel.cm is on the fourth page of Google 2. Unfortunately the actual http://nylimo.tel proxy page is nowhere to be found even 5 pages in!!! When you search for "nylimo tel" in Google you get: 1. Proudly sitting in 1st position is our Telpowered extension (http://advertised.tel2.info) 2. Remaining top 10 positions are occupied by sites linking to http://nylimo.tel 3. Unfortunately the actual http://nylimo.tel proxy page is nowhere to be found even 5 pages in!!! When you search for "nylimo.tel" in Google you get: 1. Only now is the tel proxy page (http://nylimo.tel) found and sitting happily in 1st position! Report 2: --------------- Keyword: Advertised Dot Tel: Advertised.tel Tel Powered Extension: Advertised.tel2.info When you search for advertised in Google you get: Unfortunately none of the dot tel related sites site anywhere on the first 5 pages of google. When you search for advertised tel in Google you get: 1. Proudly sitting in 1st position is our Telpowered extension (http://advertised.tel2.info) 2. Remaining top 10 positions are occupied by sites linking to http://advertised.tel 3. Unfortunately the actual http://advertised.tel proxy page is nowhere to be found even 5 pages in!!! When you search for advertised.tel in Google you get: 1. 1st position is the actual http://advertised.tel proxy page 2. Our Telpowered extension sits neatly in 2nd place (http://advertised.tel2.info) 3. Remaining top 10 positions are occupied by sites linking to http://advertised.tel NOTE: when building out the extensions, SEO was not on our mind or one of the built in features we attempted to offer. The tel powered extension SEO benefits are without any SEO value adds coded into the pages. We're obviously now looking at how we can extend our templates to offer more SEO benefits to our extensions (for another post). Would happy to hear comments from all the SEO experts out there. Thanks! |
. Well, I don't call myself a SEO expert. Nevertheless, here goes: First of all: Thank you so much, for your interesting, detailed and thorough report. After populating a .tel domain, I would wait at least two weeks, to make a judment about SEO, ranking and searchability, etc., respecively, of any improovents in the behaviour of the domain. Google needs time for indexing. Sometimes, less, but sometimes a bit more. I think, good keywords, in the header and footer, are important, as well as customizing the header title in to a common language (each word separate). Taking the both in consideration and use and practice, will help a lot. By setting up a few .tel domains. and a few websites, and by putting loads of links on them, that point to each other, sure will add some more value, and show some even better results. but you can't get any higher, than "first page, top, number one" . Apparently, a high ranking does not necessarily mean that the domain can be better found, or responds better to search entries/requests. Quality can mainly be achieved, by adding quality content to the domain. It would be interesting, to compare a domain, that has poor content, with a domain, that has a lot of high quality content, and that is structured intelligent, with good navigation possibilities. Populate, add a lot of quality content, and be very patient. Google will handle most of the rest... . |
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What version of Google are you using? All versions of Google have different algorithms. You should also give some time in assessing things. You may have tainted your results since some of the listings you have have links while other ones don't. Links, especially the quality of links, make up a huge factor in optimization.[/size] |
google.com are you saying the links on other sites to a .tel have actually had a negative impact on the search ranking? |
Why worry about Google or Yahoo rankings ? I think people use .tel in a wrong way. We should start registering every city, town or village plus business or service and populate it with appropriate information. This way we can have millions of sites around the world and we would become popular very quickly. Why waste time registering for example restaurants.tel when you could register your city restaurants.tel, your city taxi.tel, your city hotels.tel and so on Once we cover most cities populate them, advertise it locally people all over the world will now that going to denverrestaurants.tel they will have a list and contact numbers to all restaurants in Denver. Fast and to the point. They don't have to waste time going through restaurants.tel trying to find what they are interested in namely restaurant in Denver but not all over the world |
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You are absolutely right. People will only start using .tel when offers a service, and then it will go viral.[/size] |
City!City!City! If label can not show my languange,I can do nothing. 95% of big chinese city show nothing. |
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This week you'll be able to write labels in any language. So prepare to plan your work :)[/size] |
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I agree 100%. Here is a dining domain I recently built for a client in the Vancouver area. VancouverDining.tel Building quality .tel's is my main priority right now. Seach engines will adjust their algorthims over time and as the .tel domains age they can only do better even if they keep the same algorithms.[/size] |
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No, not at all. What I was referring to is that if you wanted to test everything evenly the .tel domain names that you own with links pointing to them would affect your testing results. Any links would improve your domain ranking and not all links provide the same impact. Links from larger sites will give more weight when pointed. There are certain sites on the web that are given special 'authority' status manually by search engines. Sites that are .gov and .edu are given automatic authority since not every organization can use these domains. These sites don't tend to point to other sites unless they are pointing to something that is important. That is part of the reason, along with others, that the Obama campaign wanted to be on the .gov domain names instead of the .com domains. There was some controversy that followed. :eek:[/size] |
