Getting my crunchbase page to rank in au search engines

[adam2012]

Hi, what can I do to make google think this is an Australian page?

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/adserve-digital-signage

Link to it from .com.au domains?
Put my address in on the page as Australia?

Is there any other ofpage things that could be done?

I would like it to rank for "Digital Signage"

Thanks

[adam2012]

anyone?

How does Google decide geographical target?

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Adam,

Thanks for coming to Q&A to ask your question. I'm the SEOmoz Local SEO associate, but I'm actually going to ask one of our traditional SEOs to step in with a reply. It looks to me as if you are offering a virtual service, so this is not, per se, a Local SEO question.

On a side note, one thing I did notice is that I see no physical Australian address in the footer of your website. That would certainly be a place to start. Please hang in there while I ask some of our other mods to help.

Miriam

[Dr-Pete]

Honestly, it's going to be really tough. Since CrunchBase is a US-based site and has massive cues (like the link profile) indicating that, I'm not sure you can get Google to see that a single profile page is international. You can target a whole sub-directory of your own site, but I've never seen someone to get a single directory listing to be recognized as being from a different international location. I'll run it by an international SEO and see, but I suspect this is an uphill climb.

Why are you trying to get a profile page ranking instead of your own site?

[Hannah_Smith]

Hi Adam,

As Pete says, I think you're likely to face an uphill climb with this one. Building links to the page may help, but you're fighting against a US-centric domain, and a powerful one at that.

Just out of interest, what are you trying to get this page to rank for?

Hannah