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Hello,

I've noticed the site I'm working on gets about 30-40% of Google organic search traffic from the US and the rest comes from around the world.  All the site's customers are in the US and so the thought is to focus getting traffic more from the US.

I know google webmaster tools has a geo targeting mechanism for the site in question but what I don't want to do is turn that on and then traffic from non-US sources goes away; I suppose that's not so bad if traffic from the US bumps up accordingly.  Do you have any experience on this area?

thanks

-Mike

Hello,

We're helping a client remove/minimize some negative information about their brand in Google's search results.

Just curious about your take on if the related searches that appear at the bottom of Google search results can in any way be influenced or if it is more a combination of so many factors that any one person or organization wouldn't be able to change very easily?

I've heard the related results could be influenced if enough queries generated overtake the "negative" queries done initially but I feel like that is venturing into black hat land a bit.

thanks

-Mike