I have a site in a competitive field, which is starting to make some headway up the engines for suitable phrases.
I'm happy about that, but what I've noticed via logfile analysis, is the amount of parties arriving at the site from abroad via search engines - there are lots of them and they come from just about any country you can think of.
What I'd like to do is somehow get capital from that interest. My initial thought was to approach other (quality) sites who sell what I sell, but in other countries; we only deliver in the UK. Then I could attempt a link exchange with them ("Are you in the U.S.? Then click here"). I suppose this is an obvious thing to do, but I don't see many sites doing it. Is there a reason for this? There must be millions of sites which only deliver to their home country.
Has anyone tried anything like this, or found a better way of making use of all that 'wasted' traffic from overseas?
Any thoughts appreciated!
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I have the experience of taking a website selling products that could be sold in Spain, and from this experience I have to tell you that some websites are not difficult to translate, keep updated and to give a good customer service abroad to exploit more the basic structure, work and knowledge in a field.
I would say that it is a very low investment for a great increase of your target market and sometimes we can find that foreign markets might be not so competitive as your local.
Try to see from what countries is that "wasted" traffic coming and contact with people of that country to see if you can find a way to exploit it.
Luis.
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