Googlified

Google’s Webmaster Tools now has an option to let you “associate a geographic location” with your site. I initially thought that Google wants to know where you live at, but hmm, it’s actually used to let you choose the location is your site targeted to.

For example, an online shopping site that only ships products within a specific country, say, the U.S., so that the site might try to set the geographic target as the United States.

If you want to do that, you can go to Webmaster Tools, go to the site’s profile, and go down to “Set geographic target” under “Tools”. Click on the radio button labeled “Associate a geographic location with this site”, and enter “relevant information”.

Street address? That’s a bit too much in my opinion. “Hey Google, this site targets only that elderly lady across the street. Don’t show it to nobody else.” :)

[via Zorgloob]