More USA traffic than UK.
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Hi there, I have a site www.nut-job.com and I am currently getting more traffic from the USA than uk. Is there anyway of not getting listed in the USA and telling google that the site is a UK site?
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Hey,
Yeah my webmaster is already set to focus on UK visitors
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<quote>Do you have Google Adwords? You can change the settings in there to just focus on UK searchers and not US</quote>
I think what is meant Google Webmaster Tools, see https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en
There you can change the setting "Geographic target". Should be located at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/settings?hl=en&siteUrl=http://www.nut-job.com/
If you don't have an account, I would suggest to create one.
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Hi Oliver,
Thanks for all those tips, I think I am going to implement them now. I am re-starting my link building strategy so will try and and get some more .co.uk links.
Unfortunately I don't own the .co.uk or that would have been a great shout!
Thanks for your help!
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Hi Michelle
Try;
- adding Google Places to your website
- In your website I would add in to your contact page UK in the address as Google uses the address details within a website to identify where the business is based
- changing the language in the source code from US to either English UK or just English.
- It would also be worth looking at getting a broader range of UK based links as when I did a quick link check many of them seemed to be .com.
- Can you get hold of the URL www.nut-job.co.uk and redirect traffic from that to your .com site?
- Do you have Google Adwords? You can change the settings in there to just focus on UK searchers and not US
Hope that helps
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Hey Cody, My server is now in the UK as of about 4 weeks ago. Originally it was in the USA. Do you think now i have changed I will get most UK traffic and not as much US?
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Where's your server located?
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