Are you optimizing your website for a specific country or perhaps do you want searches to be only from Canada and UK? This is called geographical targeting; this is when you want targeted users to your website from your country or from other countries. Moreover, google search result is based on the location of the searcher, this is in the Google algorithm, which is frustrating sometimes.

After my research, I have got to find out through many other SEO Guru that if the product you are selling is available in your country, for example “Pakistan” – it is better to target the audience from Pakistan by optimizing your content and website which can be found easily when someone searches “your product Pakistan” .

Let me start by giving you an Example. If you are a designer and design logos locally for people in Pakistan; it is better to target “logo designers Pakistan” instead of “logos” as this will help you reduce time and increase your sales in Pakistan. I will start by giving you few geographical SEO tips in this post, which will help you increase your search engine result page geographically.

1-Domain TLD: if your domain has .co.uk in it, chances are you will rank better in the UK.

2-Hosting: This is a major factor, if web host has a server located in Pakistan, you are likely to rank well for Pakistan instead of UK. However, this can be altered easily by the tips below.

3-Keywords Usage: for example if your website has too much content for “Pakistan” or UK, Google will perceive this that the website is targeting the location mentioned in the content

Google webmaster has a new tool as well for geographical targeting which is available at “Google Webmaster >> Tools >> Set Geographic Target” –

I hope this helps, you can always contact me for any inquiries by clicking the “Contact Me” page.

- Zafar Ahmed – SEO Guru

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