Can I Improve Organic Ranking by Restrict Website Access to Specific IP Address or Geo Location?

[CommercePundit]

I am targeting my website in US so need to get high organic ranking in US web search.

One of my competitor is restricting website access to specific IP address or Geo location.

I have checked multiple categories to know more. What's going on with this restriction and why they make it happen?

One of SEO forum is also restricting website access to specific location.

I can understand that, it may help them to stop thread spamming with unnecessary Sign Up or Q & A.

But, why Lamps Plus have set this? Is there any specific reason?

Can I improve my organic ranking?

Restriction may help me to save and maintain user statistic in terms of bounce rate, average page views per visit, etc...

[KyleJohnson40]

Since .com domains are assumed to be targeting the United States by default, you don't need to do anything to target American searchers beyond having a site that is in English and is linked to from other English websites. There are a few reasons you'd ban visitors based on IP/location, but none of them have to do with improving rankings.

These include:

• You have different a different site for international locales (you would want a 301 redirect, not an IP ban)
• You want to prevent forum/blog spam (Cloudflare would be a much better alternative than doing this manually)
• Legal reasons people from a specific location shouldn't be accessing your site or page - the only legitimate reason I can think of to ban large blocks of IPs