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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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When it comes to local SERPs, the specific local ccTLD will always be favoured vs. other TLDs. So in essence you're right - but it depends which local version of Google you are using
There are some markets which cross-over, a good example being The Netherlands & Belgium. If you search in Google.be in Dutch you will get an enormous amount of .nl (Netherlands) results. This has nothing to do with them being favoured, it's more a matter of the Belgian market being so small in comparison that it's a natural occurance to have relevant pages from The Netherlands appear in the SERPs.
Same applies in similar conditions in other markets. In theory though, a well optimised and popular .be domain in identical conditions would outrank a .nl one in the Belgian SERPs.