Targeting US search traffic
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Hello,
I've noticed the site I'm working on gets about 30-40% of Google organic search traffic from the US and the rest comes from around the world. All the site's customers are in the US and so the thought is to focus getting traffic more from the US.
I know google webmaster tools has a geo targeting mechanism for the site in question but what I don't want to do is turn that on and then traffic from non-US sources goes away; I suppose that's not so bad if traffic from the US bumps up accordingly. Do you have any experience on this area?
thanks
-Mike
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If you are only targeting for US traffic then I would definitely set GWT to target the US. You will never be able to completely cut off foreign traffic and you shouldn't want to however if you want to increase the visits to the site you should build backlinks from US sites, blogs etc. and start using social networks and target Us nationals.
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I wouldn't do anything to cut down any traffic regardless of where it comes from. At least your traffic stats and Alexa ranking will improve, which in turn should help your sites ranking and thus increase US traffic along with it.
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