| Google Webmaster Tools geographic target setting
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CrazyBigGaz
msg:4304002 | 9:01 am on Apr 26, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Hi,
I am new to Google webmaster, only signed up for my new site.
Anyway I see it has Geographic target and you can pick a country, if I was to pick UK, would I be dropped out google.com, or would I say but not rank high?
Also if I was to pick UK would I be put in google.co.uk or would I be put in google.co.uk UK pages links, or should it be both?
Thank you for your help
Regards,
Garry
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CrazyBigGaz
msg:4304084 | 1:36 pm on Apr 26, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Forgot to say and I can't seem to edit my post to add it.
The site is on a server in the UK with a UK IP address (at the moment), my domain is a .co
The site is a dating site.
I am wanting to target the UK first, then Europe, then USA
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yandr
msg:4304091 | 1:47 pm on Apr 26, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Google will certainly not drop your you site from any indexes.
I guess they will boost your ranking for UK users, but by how much (if any) remains a mystery (to me at least).
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deadsea
msg:4304165 | 3:51 pm on Apr 26, 2011 (gmt 0) |
There was an issue a while ago where an ex-employee with access to webmaster tools went in and maliciously set the country targeting to Tuvalu. The rankings in other countries certainly dropped at that time. The web site lost a lot of traffic.
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