Hi to be honest article spinning use to bring great results yet recently we see more and more changes with Google cracking down on spinners. I mean Article Samurai is said to be a decent tool using the best spinner, I have tested it and it seems to be decent.

Yet the best results will be driven from authority PR article sites which are indexed in Google news. It is a real method of trial and error you can submit your article to 100 low quality article sites or 10 very high article sites which will yield better results.

I would No Index TAG pages on your blog/website. The SEO benefit from these tags is limited the userbility benefit is evident.

Using tag pages is still not a bad idea as they can help with fine tuning your category level targeting.

Also the attached image is a great example to compare the two from this post - https://moz.com/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success

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A few important things:

1. Make sure you have the TLD for that country.

2. Make sure you have local content in that laungage for the country.

3. Make sure in webmaster tools you target that country.

4. Make you have links from that country, i.e geo specific.

From my experience hosting will not be a huge rank factor for GEO targeting, I have many websites hosting in the US yet they rank well in GEO areas, yet if it is an ecommerce site I would advise for local hosting.