Is This good practice.

[Palmbourne]

We are a UK company but we would like to get listed on some USA business directories. If say we enter our company name, the first and second line of our UK business address but put a USA state and a zip code would this help us for SEO or is this classed as black hat trying to deceive Google.

Thank you in advance for any help.

[TimHolmes]

For me, go for more links on relevant football related sites / fan forums / US sports colleges, places where your products will likely be seen and have genuine interest in rather than directories, as per Oleg also maybe have an alternative en-us site.

If you are truly looking to broaden your horizons and eventually have a presence in the US, I would suggest developing a series of useful export partnerships with key members in the US who can advocate for your products and link to your site, then once you have a foothold, maybe look to introduce shippers and use them as the address for local us services.

If and only if this takes off, it may be time to have a US base/office for committing to the US market.

[NickLeRoy]

Not worth your time - especially if your doing it soley for the value of the link. Can't see how it would be helpful from a referral traffic standpoint either.

Your time is best off doing other tasks.

[OlegKorneitchouk]

I would say this is black hat (totally illegitimate backlink) and might even confuse Google as to your actual business location.

If you want to rank better in the US, I would create a en-us hreflang version of the page & get backlinks from US based websites