Comments on: On-Site Geo-Targeting and Local Search Optimization

By: Gunn

Gunn — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:14:24 +0000

This’s great article. Thank you.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:57:16 +0000

Hi Anne, country specific domains both .co.uk and com.au will overide server location , my forum has a local domain (net.au) and hosted in the US, and is number one , in local search for its target , same with a co.uk I look after, also you can use a country specific directory or sub e.g mydomain.com/uk/ this was suggested by Google engineer and will be recognized by Googlbot

By: Kristen

Kristen — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:24:30 +0000

Hi Ann, Interesting article! I’m going to go through your suggestions and review/revamp my web site accordingly. I do have a noob geo-targeting question, in your opinion, should I use the geo-targeting in Webmaster tools if my web site is a travel guide/resource site for a particular region (cape cod) and our audience is very broad, locationally speaking? Thank you!

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:38:35 +0000

Thanks Josh. Great idea. Will look into it.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:23:29 +0000

I would sugest to your client to open a mail box – NOT a PO BOX – at Mail Boxes etc. – that will give him a local business address in UK which you can use for listings in local searches.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:52:57 +0000

Nice post Ann.

I am battling to get one of my clients ranked well on google.co.uk at the moment. Doing well on .com though.

The problem I have is that my client is not based in the UK, so I can’t use UK contact details such as addresses and phone numbers which makes it tricky. This also means I can’t add them to google local for the UK.

I am currently working on building up the backlinks from UK sites which could/should do the trick. I am also working on adding other on site optimisation data such as the words UK to the pages copy in the hope that G may take a hint.

I changed the geo location settings in webmaster tools some weeks back but this hasn’t helped.

Congratulations on your blog btw. I also look forward to reading your posts.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:54:28 +0000

Interesting post…especially about using the HTML tags for your contact address.

I will give it a try in my efforts and see how it works out.