Country extension for Target visitors

Andy-012 · Feb 18, 2021

Hi,

am planning to create a photography website. The website will be pictures of South Africa and target the European visitors such as Belgium, UK, Germany, Austria among a few other ones. I would like to target visitors from South-Africa as well.

Will it be wise to get a domain with the extension for my country i.e. co.za or .eu (where my target visitors are from) ? Or simply go for a .com or fo with these ones :
.PHOTO, .PHOTOGRAPHY, .PHOTOS

Thanks !

Biggie · Feb 18, 2021

Hi

i'd go with cctld's .co.za, .de, and .com.au, first, as you may be able to get better keywords
and then maybe go for .com

if you can get "southafrican.photos', that might work in conjunction with other extensions

Good Luck!

imo...

Andy-012 · Feb 19, 2021

Biggie said:
Hi

i'd go with cctld's .co.za, .de, and .com.au, first, as you may be able to get better keywords
and then maybe go for .com

if you can get "southafrican.photos', that might work in conjunction with other extensions

Good Luck!

imo...

Many thanks Biggie,

am not sure why you mention .com.au though (Australia) ? ;-)

If I forget about better availability of domains with keywords in my CCTLD, what will be the best tld ?

Another point here is whether I should use a cctld to tell Google that I'm targeting the audience in European countries OR tell Google that the site is about South Africa.

Biggie · Feb 19, 2021

Andy-012 said:
Many thanks Biggie,

am not sure why you mention .com.au though (Australia) ? ;-)

If I forget about better availability of domains with keywords in my CCTLD, what will be the best tld ?

Another point here is whether I should use a cctld to tell Google that I'm targeting the audience in European countries OR tell Google that the site is about South Africa.

Hi

my bad, i misread it as australia instead of austria

on the other questions
i think you are overthinking it

stick to plan of south africa photo website and get best keywords that describe that.
the "content" on your site, tells search engines all they need to know.

imo...

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