eKstreme has done some excellent work with his latest tool, recognizing a hot topic and underserved market, then delivering. The domain geolocator tool looks at the TLD extension, the hosting country (using an IP geolocation database) and the locations of inbound links for an impressive overview of the factors that might affect your domain's rank in certain locales.
I tried a few domains and the most interesting piece to me was looking at the hosting locations of the many sites that link to those domains (you can see these by clicking "details" from the initial results screen). Data like this on a potential client or competitor's site is probably of much greater value than checking your own properties.
This is an excellent tool. Pierre, I've used some of the other tools on your site even before this post, including the stats package. Great job.
excellent tool!
These tools don't work anymore. :-(
Yeah, that's the main upcoming feature: a "fire and forget" approach to just gather all the data, do the analysis and display it in one go.
Speed is another thing of concern to me. But geolocating IP addresses is slow, and doing en masse will definitely slow things down.
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Cheers, Pierre
Excellent tool, and highly recommendable!
Thanks for the post, Rand!
While testing, I played with a lot of domains to learn about any correlations, and it is indeed very strong. I found a couple of odd domains (country-specific TLDs with different country IBLs), but overall, the ccTLDs correlate well with the domain's TLD.
By the way, if you want to test out a few theories, you can pick up country-specific domains by doing searches like [site:.uk] in Yahoo (replace the .uk with the whatever country TLD you want to test).
Yeah, Pierre, you did a very good job here! I'm looking forward to the see next version, with the "list all" XLS file :)
Great find here Rand. I was surprised to see the number of ccTLDs linking to one site of mine and even more surprised to see that they were mostly hosted in 3-4 locations.