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Originally Posted by Alex
Does Google love certain country TLD's more than others?
Loads of people say yes and loads of people say no.
The ones that seem to be loved more (like .co.uk).. is it because the people behind them are investing more in their SEO? Is it because sites having certain TLD's tend to get more respect from other sites and therefore they tend to get more links?
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Google uses IP Delivery, Geo targeting and other technologies to retrieve queries based on location and language variables. Nonetheless, if you isolate all the variables for ranking (server location, header language, personalized search, inlinks, etc.) except the ccTLD, there is a chance that Google might prefer an English-associated ccTLD like .co.uk over a .co.in.
The aforementioned statement is based on the fact that for Google, English is the only non-foreign language. And since a .co.uk is predominantly for English speakers and associated with the languae, then the that ccTLD might have some weight in the algos. However, this does not meant the their results will be polluted with low quality pages if all things are equal, unless of course, there is no much information.