Block a country, will affect my ranking?

[SteveTran2013]

Dear Mozzers,

I intend to block some certain countries from viewing my website (including proxy), will it affect my Google ranking?

Thank you for your help.

BR/Tran

[DennisSeymour]

no, not really. Ive had some up for years, not really a problem.

[warcom]

It will affect your rankings, in those countries.

If you don't care about SEO or traffic from those countries, don't worry about it.

We block most countries like .RU, etc.

We don't want to sell anything to then, and we certainly don't want anything they have to sell