More USA traffic than UK.

[nutjobshell]

Hi there, I have a site www.nut-job.com and I am currently getting more traffic from the USA than uk.  Is there anyway of not getting listed in the USA and telling google that the site is a UK site?

[WhoWuddaThunk]

Where's your server located?

[nutjobshell]

Hey Cody, My server is now in the UK as of about 4 weeks ago. Originally it was in the USA.  Do you think now i have changed I will get most UK traffic and not as much US?

[mblsolutions]

Hi Michelle

Try;

• adding Google Places to your website
• In your website I would add in to your contact page UK in the address as Google uses the address details within a website to identify where the business is based
• changing the language in the source code from US to either English UK or just English.
• It would also be worth looking at getting a broader range of UK based links as when I did a quick link check many of them seemed to be .com.
• Can you get hold of the URL www.nut-job.co.uk and redirect traffic from that to your .com site?
• Do you have Google Adwords? You can change the settings in there to just focus on UK searchers and not US

Hope that helps

[nutjobshell]

Hi Oliver,

Thanks for all those tips, I think I am going to implement them now. I am re-starting my link building strategy so will try and and get some more .co.uk links.

Unfortunately I don't own the .co.uk or that would have been a great shout!

Thanks for your help!

[tfbpa]

<quote>Do you have Google Adwords? You can change the settings in there to just focus on UK searchers and not US</quote>

I think what is meant Google Webmaster Tools, see https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en

There you can change the setting "Geographic target". Should be located at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/settings?hl=en&siteUrl=http://www.nut-job.com/

If you don't have an account, I would suggest to create one.

[nutjobshell]

Hey,

Yeah my webmaster is already set to focus on UK visitors