Blocking access to your site for foreign visitors won't change anything for your "real" bounce rate. The measured bounce rate will decrease in Analytics, but these visitors will still bounce when they get to your website.

If you're using a generic domain extension - you can indicate in Webmastertools that you are targeting the local UK market (if you use a .uk extension this is automatically the case).

I wouldn't worry too much about this bounce rate - as long as the bounce rate (and time/visit - time on page) for your UK visitors is ok

rgds

Dirk

Hi Dan

Sorry - my mistake - when I was replying I had the href lang tag in mind. Check the link in Lynn's answer.

Dirk

Hi Dan,

en-uk doesn't exist - it's en-gb. Check http://microformats.org/wiki/en-uk

Dirk

Don't forget that . & ? have a specific meaning within regex - if you want to use them for pattern matching you will have to escape them. Also be aware that not all bots are capable of interpreting regex in robots.txt - you might want to be more explicit on the user agent - only using regex for Google bot.

User-agent: Googlebot

#disallowing page.php and any parameters after it

disallow: /page.php

#but leaving anything that starts with par1=ABC

allow: page.php?par1=ABC

Dirk

You could add them to the robots.txt but it you have to remember that Google will only read the first 500kb (source) - as far as I understand with the number of url's you want to block you'll pass this limit.

As Google bot is able to understand basic regex expressions it's probably better to use regex (you will probably be able to block all these url's with a few lines of code.
More info here  & on Moz: https://moz.com/blog/interactive-guide-to-robots-txt

Dirk

In addition to Ria's answer - make them noindex/follow.

If these pages (2/3...etc) would have any value to be included in the SERP's you could consider using rel next/previous - indicating that these pages belong together and should be considered as one page. The way I understand your question - the noindex/follow is probably a better solution.

Dirk

For the redirect check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21417263/htaccess-add-remove-trailing-slash-from-url :

Right below the "RewriteEngine On" line in your .htaccess file, add:

<code>RewriteCond%{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f
RewriteRule^(.*[^/])$ /$1/[L,R=301]</code>

You also have redirect chains on your site:

Example page: http://www.youpack.com.au/shipping-container-sales-commercial/ links to  http://www.youpack.com.au/?p=564 301 redirects to http://www.youpack.com.au/the-low-down-on-self-pack-removals/ 301' redirects to http://www.youpack.com.au/stamp-the-low-down-on-self-pack-removals-2/ = error 404

Dirk