Questions tagged [country-specific]
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Website Inaccessible to US Visitors
I help to manage a website based in Latin America and have run into an interesting issue I have no explanation for. The site was built in Wordpress using both Gutenberg and the backend editor, with ...
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Is there a way of lowering my search results outside of my business area (country)?
Situation: I run a tree farm in Alberta, Canada.
I sell mail order seedlings all over Canada. Lately I'm getting lots of calls from the U.S. This is a nuisance, as the paperwork for cross border ...
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Can hreflang in XML sitemaps include country as well as language?
We have a multicountry and multilanguage website. Different countries have multiple available languages. We have different version of each page for country and language.
From Google documentation I ...
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How can I test that a webapp is available to users in China?
Does anyone know what the best (quickest) way to test whether a small webapp is viewable inside China? We've already tested with a small but varied group but we're looking to extend our testing ...
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How to get duplicate geo-targetted sub-directories indexed when Google is ignoring the canonicals?
I have a main website example.com which is mainly used for targeting one country. We recently started creating sub-directories for targeting other countries i.e, example.com/us/, example.com/ph/ etc., ...
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Can you hide a server IP address using Cloudflare?
I am in the UK and looking for a new server for my websites. Pricing in the UK is really expensive but I stuck with the UK as that is where my main audience is. I noticed that with providers like ...
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Can I use a US IP address to more easily get Google AdSense approval? [closed]
I m from Bangladesh. I need to make new blogger website. A few of my friends tried, but didn't get Google AdSense approval yet, even though they are good bloggers.
I'm thinking that it will be easier ...
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Should a hreflang site for a language also show pages for that language and a specific region?
It's the first time for me that I implement a multi-language and regional website. I read all the google information about how to implement hreflang tags and I also read a few other information on the ...
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Problems ranking in different countries for .com TLD
Certain page on my site shows up on the first page of 'google.com' but when I'm searching for the same phrase in google by changing the country in the Google's search settings, it doesn't show up on ...
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How to tell Google to show a webpage only in specific countries
I have a website with product information, let's say for example that the product URL is www.example.com/product. How can I tell Google that I want that product page to be shown only in specific ...
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Why would my Iranian website only appear in search results outside Iran?
I have a shopping site in Iran, but when I search in Google, it won't come up in the search results. The only way I can find the site at all in Google from inside Iran is after a long search in image ...
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Country-specific pages same domain or subdomains?
On our website, we list businesses such as restaurants. So there are restaurants in USA and say, Mexico. The restaurants in Mexico could be American chains as well.
So what's the best way to handle ...
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Is it bad for SEO have the same site on a .gr and a .com with both English and Greek content?
I have a site that shows in two different domains.
www.example.gr and www.example.com.
Both are from the same setup and and both sites have a Greek and an English version. Is that bad for seo?
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How to keep my website available in two country and restrict rest? [closed]
I am a non tech guy , looking for a solution to limit the access of my wp website to people from two countries only. I'm using easywp.
want it to be accessible to only one/two countries for two ...
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How can I check if AdSense is showing ads in other countries?
I have build website and it is showing AdSense ads in India.
How can I check whether ads are showing in the USA or Canada?
Is there any minimum traffic requirement for showing ads in each country?
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How can I know the exact search results of a query in the U.S if I'm not in the U.S?
Say I am currently in Japan, but I want to know what is the top 10 pages of "learn Japanese" in the U.S, how can I do?
If I search directly, it's a result for audience in my place. Even if I turn it ...
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When my main domain is targeted for India and I want to target my subdomain worldwide, how to achieve this?
My main domain is targeted for India, Can I use my sub-domain to target throughout the world?
How can I achieve this?
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ccTLD (e.g. .it) instead of a gTLD (e.g. .com) for a multicountry AND multilang site
I use a ccTLD for my website and I want to use it as a gTLD.
Will Google punish me for using a ccTLD instead of a gTLD (e.g. .com) for a multicountry AND multilang site?
The URL structure I'm aiming ...
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Google "Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical" between UK and IE sites with same content meant for different audiences
We have an /ie and /uk variation of our site.
/ie uses € and /uk £'s, both are in English. Both sites are submitted to google as we want the IE site to return in googole.ie and UK site to return in ...
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Google Analytics not recording any hits on country subdomain. Google tag assistant reports net::ERR_ABORTED
We are having a bit of trouble in setting up country-specific subdomains in Google Analytics and it is not registering traffic on one of the subdomains.
So the domains are example.com & nz....
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Redirect to different subfolders according to geolocation without affecting SEO
I want to open different pages by default in different countries. But It affects SEO of main URL.
Like my website is example.com. I want to open this URL in India and example.com/abc outside India ...
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How do you specify alternate pages with different content for users in different countries?
I have two versions of my website one is www.example.com and other is at www.example.com/us for users from two different countries.
These two versions have the same number of pages and in same order.
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Create a Google Analytics filter to view stats from .com and .com.au domains separately
We are having trouble with distinguishing analytics for our dual domain.
Our website is currently set up as a .com that filters content for Australia/
We cannot seem to track .com.au's analytics data ...
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How do I block India from visiting my site?
I want to avoid large scale content theft and plagiarism which mainly comes from India as they have no laws preventing Indians from stealing content.
Is this possible via .htaccess or some other ...
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Verifying that a user is from a certain country
I'm helping a small non-profit with their website and we are going to have a login and membership system where we need to verify that a user is from a certain country. How can this be done? We are ...
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Over 30% of my web site traffic is mistaken foreign traffic. How can I minimize SEO damage (bounce rates, context, audience relevance)?
Despite owning my .com domain name for almost twenty years, a new Indian TV show with the same name as my domain is entering its second season, and I can't figure out how to mitigate the damage.
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Promoting certain domains in different countries
We have two domains:
example.net
example.co.uk
The .com is unavailable. Most of our customer base is UK based, so the .co.uk works well for us - we have our marketing site at example.co.uk.
We'd ...
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Does country blocking affect SEO?
I was getting frequent attack on my website from overseas countries when it started becoming popular in SEO. As my business is totally based in Australia, I thought it would be better to block all ...
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Google Search Console verification problem after blocking countries
I have recently blocked all countries except USA and Australia to access my web server as I was getting frequent attacks from many countries. My business is totally based in Australia and I don't ...
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How to stop showing AdSense ads in some countries?
I want to block my AdSense ads from showing to users in specific countries. The low payout countries are making my average CPC drop. I don't want to show my ads at all to users in those countries.
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How do you allow access to your website for people in China?
My website recently got blocked by the Chinese government. I considered moving the server out of China to somewhere like Singapore where it would not lengthen the latency too much, but still do the ...
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How to move a site to a new country with a new country top level domain?
We recently moved to Oz and we have bought a new domain name to launch over here. It is just a small run from home catering business, so searches are usually localized.
My original plan was to 301 ...
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Can different laws and regulations for a ccTLD in an unfamilar country be problematic?
I'd like to register a .gy domain though this is probably applicable to others like .me, .cc, .tv, etc.
These are ccTLDs for countries which I am not familiar with. Should I be concerned with this ...
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Can country geo targeting be overridden for country code top level domains in Google Webmaster Tools? [duplicate]
Google Webmaster Tools automatically associated your website with the TLD that you're in. This is nice if the website is targeted towards that country, but its not always the case. In some instances, ...
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Excluding all locations in AdWords except US
Is there a way to exclude all locations in AdWords except the US?
I'm not sure if the only way to do this is the manually add countries that aren't US (I know the limit is 1,000. I'm also aware that ...
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Can we register a .uk domain when we own the .co.uk but our registrar doesn't do .uk registrations?
I currently have .co.uk with name.com who do not provide a .uk domain. Is there anyway I can register a .uk domain with a different provider for this domain?
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Does registering .uk domains require being a UK Citizen?
I'm a Canadian citizen and I'm looking to register a .uk domain for a future project of mines.
I know that anyone can register a .co.uk domain, but I'm talking about the recently released .uk top-...
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Htaccess redirect based on country of origin
Can a rule that filters and redirect traffic based on country of origin be implemented in .htaccess?
Can it be implemented in any other way then by an IP address? I need the solution to be as ...
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How many users see Google search results just for their own country?
Are there any stats about how many Google/Bing users may be selecting country (as in the pic) in the SERP?
As Susan says in here that geotargeting in GWT only works when users select a country as in ...
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How to implement hreflang on a single domain?
Large amounts of a company's (English) content are duplicated across the following ccTLDs:
example.co.uk
example.com
example.au
example.ie
example.co.nz
The issue is that, realistically, we can only ...
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Top Level Domain (.com) and subdirectories for each country: Do they need their own content to rank in Google?
If I want to have a new site with a .com domain and have a /uk/ and /au/ folder for ranking in the Google results for each country, do I need to create a /uk/blog/ and a /au/blog/ to get content for ...
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Can I choose two geographic target countries for my website?
I have a website, the main target audience from two countries. In the Google Webmaster Tools you just can choose one location.
Do I need to do something or just leave it alone?
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Register a .ca domain from the US -- proxy service
We are a US-based business and interested in registering a .ca domain. I understand the Canadian Presence Requirements for Registrants - CIRA (www.cira.ca/assets/Documents/Legal/Registrants/CPR.pdf). ...
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Is it a bad idea to use a domain hack for my personal website name?
I want to create a personal webpage for info about myself (potentially for employment or other contact purposes), but the .com extension for my intended name is already taken. The name I want ends in ...
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Shopping site catering to 2 countries where *most* content is same, except pricing. Duplicate content?
I'm working on redeveloping a small site for a boutique food producer. They are New Zealand based but are wanting to start selling in Australia. They have both domain names (.co.nz and .com.au).
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Google Analytics: Disable tracking for country/region
I'm using Google analytics on a small business website from Germany. Today I noticed 86 visitors from Palo Alto on a Sunday. No matter where they come from and why there are visiting the site, they ...
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Economical DNS hosting separate from local registrar for country specific TLDs - email or web hosting not required
Our company owns many country specific top level domains (TLDs; .sg, .my). We will purchase more for other countries in all South East Asia.
These domains are associated with our websites hosted on ...
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Country specific content vs global content
I have a global product presentation website myproduct.com
For certain countries I also own the country domain: myproduct.co.uk, myproduct.com.au, myproduct.es, myproduct.de, etc.
The presentation ...
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Separate urls for a set of pages sharing 80% duplicate content
Issue:
Currently my site has one particular page which has country specific data. So I've URLs like :
mysite.com/sale-united-states
mysite.com/sale-united-kingdom
mysite.com/sale-sweden
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All ...
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Blocking adsense ad units for a particular country
So I have got one hater in India who bombarded on my adsense ad units. Luckily I didn't get banned from Google. I have blocked Indian visitors from my site using iq-blockcountry plugin (wordpress). ...
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