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How do I block India from visiting my site?
Err? India does have copyright laws...
Sorry to say but your comment about India not having copyright laws is utter non-sense and unfounded. Furthermore its highly doubtful that your hard work is not ...
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Can you hide a server IP address using Cloudflare?
You can host your website anywhere with good connectivity and get good rankings for a particular area - Google likely keys off the domain suffix more then the IP address (which hints at actual ...
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Is there a way of lowering my search results outside of my business area (country)?
Targeting a country in Google Search Console
Using Google Search Console, you can indicate to Google that your website should target a specific country rather than targeting visitors globally.
Log in ...
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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.
I don't understand how you come across the ...
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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?
A .gr domain will only ever rank on Google for searchers from Greece. There is no way to target a .gr domain to worldwide users of Google. See I'm using a vanity country code top level domain (ccTLD)...
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How do I block India from visiting my site?
You'll never be able to block malicious users of an entire country. Likely, they are using automated methods to scrape your content, so I'd suggest making your site really annoying and time consuming ...
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Verifying that a user is from a certain country
Here is a simple thought, when signing up have a field that that forces them to pick from one of the selected countries you speak of.
The reality is, anyone that is criminal minded will have no ...
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Create a Google Analytics filter to view stats from .com and .com.au domains separately
Base on your question and your comments, I will assume this is the right answer.
The best way to do this is by creating two different views. One for the .com and another one for the .com.au.
how to ...
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Problems ranking in different countries for .com TLD
Generally google tries to show geo-specific or location specific results.
Google has several ways of determining target locale, for example:
A target locale specified using Search Console's ...
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How to tell Google to show a webpage only in specific countries
The biggest exception to "no duplicate content" is for nearly identical sites targeted at different countries. Google specifically allows copies of your site for this purpose and won't penalize the ...
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Problems ranking in different countries for .com TLD
It looks like you are setting up website across multiple countries. For google rating, it is important to let google understand your multiple-country setting, especially which page are targeted at ...
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Can hreflang in XML sitemaps include country as well as language?
Yes, you can also include the country as well.
If you scroll down a bit on that page you linked you will see:
Supported language/region codes
The value of the hreflang attribute
identifies the ...
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How can I test that a webapp is available to users in China?
One option to test your webapp inside China would be to use a website testing service that has servers located in China. These services can help you verify if your website is accessible and performing ...
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How to get duplicate geo-targetted sub-directories indexed when Google is ignoring the canonicals?
By adding the canonical meta link to your alternate language pages you're telling crawlers to ignore those pages and favour the canonical page.
In this case you need to be using href-lang meta data to ...
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Why would my Iranian website only appear in search results outside Iran?
First of All, Is your website hosted in Iran and do you have a .ir TLD?
Additionally, you can improve your local search ranking by using Google My Business services.
Here are a few tips to improve ...
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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?
Since both URLs target the same content I suggest using a canonical URL, specifying either the .com or the .gr as the canonical version of your site.
If what you wanted was to safeguard your domain ...
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How can I check if AdSense is showing ads in other countries?
Go into your AdSense reporting and click on the "Countries" report. It will tell you how often ads on your site are showing up 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?
use VPN like "strong VPN" or "tunnel bear" and then open incognito mode, then type google.com for the USA, google.co.uk for the United Kingdom and so on.
Then search for your keyword
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When my main domain is targeted for India and I want to target my subdomain worldwide, how to achieve this?
This is no easy question and I think there might be many different ways to achieve your goal.
As Google itself suggests, it's mainly about your content and where it's shared.
It's going to be all ...
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ccTLD (e.g. .it) instead of a gTLD (e.g. .com) for a multicountry AND multilang site
Short answer: it will, at least initially.
Long Answer: ccTLD is a very strong country-targeting signal and making Google understand otherwise will require work and patience.
You will need to employ ...
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Redirect to different subfolders according to geolocation without affecting SEO
You can use rel=alternate to indicate that the example.com/abc is for outside India and that example.com is the default version. This way a user in India will find the example.com in his search ...
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How do you specify alternate pages with different content for users in different countries?
If you really want to target individual countries you can use subdomains for this.
You see this with en.wikipedia.org and es.wikipedia.org. Wikipedia uses subdomains for different countries.
Each ...
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How do I block India from visiting my site?
Blocking a country is complicated and the other answers posted here explain the drawbacks such as thieves scraping your site from a proxy server outside their country, etc. However to answer your ...
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Does country blocking affect SEO?
Ref: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6144055?hl=en
Check This section Geo-distributed crawling
when Googlebot appears to come from a certain country, treat it like you would treat any ...
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How to stop showing AdSense ads in some countries?
You can use GeoIP database and some GeoIP library for the language your site is build with to detect the country and then don't include the adsense code if visitors country matches one you don't like.
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How to stop showing AdSense ads in some countries?
First you have to understood google terms and conditions for cpc in that you cpc doesn't affect you click for low paying country. Your cpc is same for all countries that you have mentioned.
If your ...
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