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Hi Rebekkah, Sounds like you already understand the pros&cons of using GWT country targeting. Obviously it is hard to make any recommendations without first knowing your niche and auditing the off-page SEO metrics of your competitors, since the big G acts in its own way per niche. There might be some indicators which will make your life harder or easier to rank well for a variety of keywords in US and India at the same time. I would suggest making an off-page audit to understand where your well ranking competitors are getting their links from (where are they hosted, what is their targeted audiance, what kind of social signals they are getting, what language is their anchor keywords?  etc..)