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Well put the rest of the content in a different directory then and disallow that, thats the only other solution I can think of...

Thanks for the replies. I created a sitemap for each store last week. I added the links to the robots.txt and also submitted them to Google. The SEO Moz site crawler now crawls the full site content, but the pages are still recorded as 302 redirects. The GWT figures are completely wrong where it displays the number of indexed pages.. lmQc

hi guys I think I found something interesting, I happen to be fiddling around with setting up the server earlier today and using any cast DNS with DYN.com the reason I mention this is there was a setting called local IP which asked me for my exact whereabouts. This has led to me googling articles seeing if it affected SEO according to what I've read it does now I use dyn.com, ultraDNS.com,'s ergo and just bought DNSmadeeasy.com http://www.askdavetaylor.com/can_dns_changes_affect_search_engine_results_placement_serp.html this one actually references Australia and Matt Cutts of Google a great combo for what you're asking about http://seoforum.net.au/SeoBlog/2011/06/07/does-hosting-ip-effect-local-search-listing/ http://www.zerigo.com/docs/managed-dns/geodns_continents_countries now you want to stay away from the very broad questions like country given by the link above because of this reason http://www.localseoguide.com/geotargeting-location-by-ip-address-seo-death/ I can tell you that I was asked by this software running the light edition for LOC that requested my latitude longitude as well as my height from seawater http://dyn.com/dns/dynect-managed-dns-lite/ Neustar.biz the parent company of ultra DNS has this interesting information that and more http://www.neustar.biz/enterprise/digital-marketing/what-is-localized-web-content https://www.ultratools.com/tools/yourIPResult Continent: North AmericaCountry: United StatesCountry Code: USCountry CF: 98Region: State: State Code: State CF: DMA: MSA: City: Postal Code: Timezone: Area Code: City CF: Latitude: 38Longitude: -97 About this Tool (it by Quova) now owned by ultra DNS or neustar http://developer.quova.com/ The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) delegates Internet resources to RIRs (regional Internet registries) who, in turn, follow their regional policies to delegate resources to their customers. Each IP address on the global public Internet is administered by one of the 5 RIRs within a particular region of the world. As such, each globally routable IP address is associated with its RIR's region, and the RIR's allocation policy results in an IP address being associated again with a specific country or region with a country. This association is typically "soft" and is simply a function of the assignee's location. The Geo-location & Country Lookup tool attempts to pinpoint which country an IP address appears to be "associated" with. Note that Geo-location information is usually only accurate up through the RIR's direct assignment. For example, if an RIR allocates a block of IP addresses to a large ISP in Quebec, but the ISP assigns one of those addresses to a customer in Vancouver, the location of the IP address will be reported as being in Quebec. last but not least for a much less expensive alternative but something that apparently still does the exact same job take a look at DNSmadeeasy.com "The Global Traffic Director from DNS Made Easy provides geographical source-based IP routing which allows the administrator to optimize traffic flow based on the geographical location of the end user. Traffic can be regionally divided among different servers or data centers which can greatly increase the performance of DNS by segmenting traffic." http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/services/global-traffic-director/ -z8JiXONMD8

Thanks  @Hannah @Moosa @Mark @Martijn @Deb for replying. I think that it is just a hint for google but it doesn't mean that it is going to block you from other countries. More than just a selection in the web master tool I think google will directly analyze your website and decide for which country your website is more "relevant" and of more "value to visitors".

Completely. Its a great investment to own the .com version as well - you never know if the client wants to expand in the future. It also insures you against people buying (and using) the .com version. Hope this has helped you.

Hi Daria, That is tough if these wrong citations are stemming from personal websites rather than business directories. I can see how it will be harder to get them changed. You are doing what would be advised - writing to the owners to request that they either edit or remove the citation. With directories, it's more formalized, so easier. But, the process is the same - finding everything you can and slogging through trying to get them changed. If a couple of weeks go by and you haven't heard from the bloggers, I would write again. You could also try commenting on the blog posts that reference the business. Finally, you can also start a thread in the Google and Your Business Forum to discuss your inability to remove old citations: http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/business I'm glad a refresher on the guidelines helped you to identify and issue you were having. Good luck, Daria!

Yes, you can go ahead with that as this will be an additional signal for search engine and also positively affect the speed at which site will be accessed by the users from the targeted country.

Thanks for the links.. some new bedtime reading

Hi Nicola, I was going to write you a really long reply and then I remembered a thread written by Google that goes into detail about multi-regional websites and all the bits and pieces. This is probably a really great read for you, more so than me leaving a long winded comment: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html I hope that helps? Christopher

Look at the competing firms in your industry in those geo regions and try to get a keyword inventory based on what they are doing. Hopefully you will see some overlap of these keywords (long-tails in this case would be best) for different firms and try to generate compelling content. This is at least a start. I hope this is what you are asking.

Thanks, Ben. You bring up some important points and a good solution with the multiple links rather than the drop-down menu.

Hi Jackie, As far as I am aware that is the case. For the sites that will use the same language you will need to really create unique content for all of the pages. You will also need to treat each site individually and SEO strategies will likely differ depending on the competitors in the marketplace. It's important to realise that you probably need link building strategies in each of the languages you are targeting also. For example, your french site would ideally benefit from links from .fr domains and with french anchor text.

Ha ha love it! Your site's domain is currently associated with the target: Australia.. automatic for .com.au then? Thanks Robert!

My short-term goal is to provide some at-a-glance drill-down metrics (like domain diversity or EMD influence) on the Mozcast site. That way, when something happens, people can immediately  look at half a dozen metrics and see if there's a pattern across the data as a whole. No ETA on that yet, but hopefully within a few weeks.