Question : Do Country Code Domain Extensions affect SEO?

I have a website that I'm doing SEO on and it is not banned from Google, however it doesn't show up in the google search results for the keywords it's optimized. It has a country code at the end of the domain that is .ws

Could this affect it's ranking in plain old Google because the country code is for Samoa?

Answer : Do Country Code Domain Extensions affect SEO?

Hi

What I've heard is that the extension has no effect on general SEO issues like keywords in the domain.

Where it does come into play is in which versions of SERPs your domain will rank highly - e.g. a .co.uk will do better in Google's UK pages than a .com, but worse in USA pages.

I haven't seen anything about such differences between the 'non-country' extensions though, like .com, .net, .biz.

Have you got an Samoan ISP?

Ellandrd