How to rank on searches from specific countries

Here are some tips on how your site can rank well on searches from your target market. This is not sorted by importance, but these can help you improve your search engine rankings.

Geo Targeted Content – If your target market are people from Germany. Make sure your content is written in German Language and make sure your content is grammatically correct.

Geo Targeted Domain – If your target market are people from the UK, it is suggested that you get .co.uk domains since most people from UK browse .co.uk sites more often than .com sites.

Geo Targeted Hosting – If you target market are people from Canada, better find a good Canadian hosting company to host your site. This way your sites load relatively much faster than those hosted elsewhere.

Geo Targeted Keywords – If your target market are clients looking for Web
Designers in Makati, include the place of your target market in the keywords, for example: Web Designer Makati.

Search Engines does consider these three criterias in determining your site’s rank on specific searches. So if you are planning to improve your site’s ranking on searches from a specific country, better follow these four basic rules. Good luck!

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Alfredo is a web designer, programmer and a search engine marketer from the Philippines. He is also an amateur photographer and loves to travel. He can be found on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Questions? Send him an email.