Comments on: Google’s search engine ignores Google Local

By: David Rosam

David Rosam — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:07:31 +0000

Thanks Adam

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:58:15 +0000

Yep, the geo-targeting in the Webmaster Console helps, as does the network you’re seen in. Ensuring that you aim to gather the majority of your controlled backlinks from UK-based sites (.co.uk/UK IPs) will push things in the right direction as well.

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By: David Rosam

David Rosam — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:41:35 +0000

Hi Kelvin

I’ve looked at Google Webmaster Tools and, while it does have a geographical targeting feature, it’s not what I want. It says:

“Some sites target users for a particular geographic location. For example, a site may target all users within a specific country, or it may target only those users who reside within a very small geographic area within that country.

If your site is targeting users within a particular geographic area, please provide us with the relevant information below, using only the fields that apply to your target audience.”

In other words, if I use this feature, then the way I read it, I will be excluding traffic from anywhere else in the world.

But thanks for the heads-up. It could be useful in another context.

David

By: kelvin newman

kelvin newman — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:18:24 +0000

Not sure whether it over-rides over signals but I think thats their aim

By: David Rosam

David Rosam — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:24:41 +0000

Thanks Kelvin

Will that do the trick? Have you tried it?

David

By: kelvin newman

kelvin newman — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:13:30 +0000

you can use webmaster tools to tell them where you’re from now aswell!