Country Specific TLD

Hi all

I am thikning of launching my site in different countries. I’ve just seen Canada & Australia are really locked down to residents if you want the .au or .ca domain name.

Would it really matter. Will .ca / .au sites be favoured more by search engines. If I had .com versions of the sites and set geo targetting to those countries in Web Tools is this good enough.

Thanks in advance…

[FONT=Verdana]There have been quite a few discussions round this issue. You might find some help in these threads:

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?839078-Focus-on-One-com-Domain-or-Lot-of-Country-Specific-Domains
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?805422-Google-country-searches-it-really-does-matter-where-your-hosting-is
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Thanks very much