Geotargeting is the practice of targeting web content to specific countries. This typically also includes targeting speakers of specific languages and variants of languages.
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I'm using a vanity ccTLD, can I persuade Google to geotarget a different region?
Because I'm still living like it's 2008, I run a website with a .in TLD. The website has nothing to do we India and does not target Indian users.
Unfortunately, when I go to Google Webmaster Tools I ...
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.co.uk targeted for google.co.uk .com targeted for google.com
We've had a website running on a .co.uk domain for some years, this domain is listed in the SERPS for our brand on both google.co.uk and google.com. We get little traffic from anywhere other than the ...
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How can I route traffic between two hosting servers?
I have a web site. It is designed for two target groups of users: one from Eastern Europe, second - from USA. I also have two hosting accounts - one in USA and one in Europe.
I'd like to route the ...
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Directing Multiple ccTLD's to 1 gTLD with a country specific subdirectory?
We have multiple ccTLDomains and are thinking about how to best combine these into one. We want to do this to focus our link building efforts.
We are running a website through which we offer a ...
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Transferring users and search engines to a new domain
I've been asked to take over the maintenance of an existing site that's being reworked.
At present it's serving localised content for several languages, but via a fairly unhelpful mechanism that ...
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Options for geotargeting content
My company is creating a web portal that is designed to put relevant local geographic data in front of our users. Aside from using IP addresses, which are increasingly becoming less reliable as a ...
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Is there a way to know if apache receives a request from a public IP not local to your country?
I'm looking for ways to know if an apache server receives a request , from another country (e.g germany) considering its a fair request (no spam , or proxies). I want it either to appear this as a ...
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Page Spamming via locations
Hi guys I am new here so please be gentle :)
I have created a web page for a small mail order business.
The page asks the reader if they are in need of a supplier for products in their "area" and if ...
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How to maximize SEO of an internationalized website? [closed]
I am developing a website that should be multi languages.
I would like your opinions about what the best way to do it, considering get the most SEO possible.
I have these alternatives:
Altarnative ...
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Can we tell search engines (google, yahoo) that a particular website is geographical region specific?
I have a website which caters to a specific district. It is of no use if the visitor is from outside this district.
Question:
Can I tell/indicate to search engines (mainly google and Yahoo) that ...
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What's better for SEO for many international markets?
Right now, we're working to migrate our company sites for international markets to this scheme
www.company.com/[2 letter country codes]
www.company.com/uk #for United Kingdom
www.company.com/au ...
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Google Webmasters Tools - Accidentally changed something and quickly switched back
In Google Webmasters Tools I accidently changed Geotargeting to from No Preference to United States. I realized that was a mistake and changed it back within 2 minutes. Will changes take effect or ...
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Is there any negative impact with similar page titles and descriptions on similar sites?
Currently we have Canadian versions of some websites. We are going to create some American versions, which essentially have everything the same, except the search results are geo-specific to the USA.
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SEO best practices for a web feature that uses geolocation by IP Address
I'm working on a feature that tailors content based on a geo location lookup by IP address in order to provide information based on the general area where this visitor is from.
I'm concerned that ...
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Geotargeted subfolder questions (Portugal/Brazil and Switzerland)
We are at the beginning of the process to get multilingual versions of a website.
We will be using subfolders working off the core domain (eg mydomain.com/fr/), set the geotargeting at webmaster tools ...
