How to overcome server and WHOIS location
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What if we published an address in the UK as the contact/WHOIS details but wanted to target the USA market? The server resides in the UK, the domain WHOIS resides in the UK - but what are the best methods to target the US search market? The domain is a .com domain.
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Any ideas and suggestions guys?
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I.e...what we would like to do is "break free" from the UK Whois and server ip location flags.
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Thanks for the response. Ok say we wanted to target all English speaking countries with a slight focus on the US search market and we had a UK ip address and UK Whois contact details...would the best setting be "unlisted" or to not specify at all?
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