Is it possible to target a keyword which is english but targeted to google.com.tr user
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Hey I want to know, is it possible to target a keyword which is english, but target market .com.tr
For that purpose must we take backlink from site written english but target to turkish ?
Or site written english but target to anywhere?I know this question is a bit confusing but my boss want me to that.
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Language and country targeting are two different things. There are tons of people across multiple countries that speak English. People in Turkey speak a few languages as well I would assume.
It seems like you want to take the content on your site focused to users in Turkey, but offer it in English. If you put the English content on your Turkey ccTLD, it can still rank for people searching across the world for those English terms, but it's harder depending on the topic especially if there are sites/companies in their own country targeting the same topic.
Check out this tool I made to determine what international expansion strategy is best for your company. http://www.katemorris.com/issg
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You can make a ccTLD rank as well as a gTLD, but the catch is you'll need strong signals coming from the market you want to penetrate. Let's say you wanted to market to the US off that domain. Google is going to want to see strong signals that your site is relevant in the US market (i.e. US blogs, Twitter, etc) before they rank a site they see a specific to Turkey.
As Andy mentioned, it might be much easier to get a gTLD (.com, .net, etc) and host it elsewhere. Remember, you have a benefit in that you could buy domain.com to match domain.com.tr and not have them get hit with a duplicate content penalty.
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Those preferences are local to whoever is doing the searching.
Targeting Turkey with an English site, i don't thing would be a very wise idea though.
Have you thought about creating a site for this purpose? Buy a .com domain, host it in the US or UK and then SEO it for this audience?
-Andy
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Alrite last question
As you know in the google, google give us choice to choose language that we want to use in google. ( I mean this https://www.google.com.tr/preferences?hl=tr&fg=1#languages )
Does it change the result If someone from Turkey choose Turkish and do a search in English.
I mean If I target to Turkey with an English written site, Did I also target all the people in Turkey no matter which language they prefer in the https://www.google.com.tr/preferences?hl=tr&fg=1#languages ?? -
For your own market, yes, this really shouldn't be an issue. To go into a global market for it, this could be something much more complicated.
So give you an example, if I search for "Bedroom Furniture" for example, I am only going to see UK results. More generic searches, I may start seeing .com results, but I can't think of an occasion where I would see another country specific TLD.
-Andy
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Well, first of all thank you for quick answer.
Actually, firstly I want to target Turkey market ( I mean google.com.tr Turkey location users) and then global user ( around the world.)
Is it possible ?
Thank you. -
Hi,
There is absolutely no reason why you can't target a page for an English phrase. That said, are you looking to target an English market, or just appear in Turkey for that phrase?
-Andy
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