Patent ID: 7441044

Claim:
A method of determining a new countrytag for a website on a network, comprising: identifying a set of country hosts for a plurality of websites, each country host having a country-related domain; assigning a countrytag to each country host that corresponds to the country-related domain for the respective country host, wherein the countrytag is stored on a storage medium; identifying a set of global hosts for the plurality of websites, each global host not having any country-related domain; analyzing one or more inlinks to at least one global host from the set of global hosts to determine another countrytag for the at least one global host; producing an augmented set of hosts that includes the set of country hosts, the at least one global host, and the corresponding countrytags for each country host and the at least one global host; summing unique inlinking hosts and outlinking hosts in the augmented set; analyzing inlinks to the augmented set of hosts to assign the new countrytag to the at least one global host, wherein there are more than a first predetermined percentage of unique inlinking hosts from the same country-related domain, a particular country-related domain accounts for more than a second predetermined percentage of the unique inlinking hosts, and the number of inlinking hosts from a particular country is more than a predetermined threshold value.