How to focus SEO efforts on a single country?

[Cairmen]

I hope this one isn't too obvious a question to ask, as I'm sure it's been asked before. However -

I'm considering a new site which would be focussed entirely on a UK market. US and other world traffic would be effectively useless.

Using social media and standard linkbuilding techniques, how do I focus my efforts on the UK market? Getting links from .co.uk, I guess - what else? Or is it just "SEO generally and some of it'll be for the UK"?

[smstv]

Start with Single Directories for each Cities area of interest, and duplicate one for in each country, then submit it to each search engine monthly, and add relative unique content of each page. To insure link quality.

Hope this helps!

[sesertin]

If you are focusing just for the UK you nedd a co.uk tld as you mentioned. You need to submit to UK directories and to get links from UK  sites. If you can host your page in the UK that is even better, that does not mean to buy hosting from a UK firm but to have server phisically based in the UK. You can alsotry adding a lang=en parameter to the html. As Cisaz said you can try adding targeted cities like seo in London or Birmingham. That is all you can do besides general SEO issues.

[KeriMorgret]

Hi Cisaz,

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "duplicate one for in each country", and give some background about why you suggest submitting to a search engine monthly?