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  • izaiasalmeida
    izaiasalmeida last edited by Mar 2, 2012, 8:03 PM

    Hi,

    I've a relative good ranking for a specific keyword in google.com (english queries (hl=en)), but searching for the same keyword in google.com.br (Brazilian Portuguese (hl=pt-BR)), my rank for that keyword is far worst.

    The question is:

    I need to do something specific to rank in google.com.br (hl=pt-BR)? I'm doing the regular link building. Creating some blogs, blogging for 10 days before droping my links, and creating link wheels the same way. The blogs I create to make links are written in Brazilian Portuguese, also, the blog that I'm trying to rank higher, is also written in Brazilian Portuguese.

    Sorry for the english, it's not my native language.

    Thanks

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    • izaiasalmeida
      izaiasalmeida @JamesNorquay last edited by Mar 3, 2012, 7:42 AM Mar 3, 2012, 7:42 AM

      I check the Webmasters Tools and everything is correct. The geo targeting is for Brazil.

      Thank you.

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      • izaiasalmeida
        izaiasalmeida @izaiasalmeida last edited by Mar 3, 2012, 7:41 AM Mar 3, 2012, 7:41 AM

        Thank you for the answer, I will look for that.

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        • Syed1
          Syed1 @izaiasalmeida last edited by Mar 3, 2012, 6:46 AM Mar 3, 2012, 6:46 AM

          BBB is Better Business Bureau, an independent agency that verifies and accredits businesses - verifies address, etc. Their review process is pretty extensive (official visit from BBB staff in many major cities) and I believe a link from that site should be quality one, giving your site/biz location signals to Google

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          • JamesNorquay
            JamesNorquay @izaiasalmeida last edited by Mar 3, 2012, 12:55 AM Mar 3, 2012, 12:55 AM

            No problem happy to help, but do you have Google webmaster tools, check out the GEO targeting on that too. If you use a .br domain it should automatically select it to Brazil.

            But yes try and target local content and local links, if you build all your link profile in .co.uk you can run into some problems.

            Good luck with the site 😃

            izaiasalmeida 1 Reply Last reply Mar 3, 2012, 7:42 AM Reply Quote 0
            • izaiasalmeida
              izaiasalmeida last edited by Mar 3, 2012, 12:05 AM Mar 3, 2012, 12:05 AM

              Looks like I'm doing everything, I'll mark it as answered.

              But, if somebody has more to add, please share.

              Thank you for all the answers.

              JamesNorquay 1 Reply Last reply Mar 3, 2012, 12:55 AM Reply Quote 0
              • izaiasalmeida
                izaiasalmeida @JamesNorquay last edited by Mar 3, 2012, 12:02 AM Mar 3, 2012, 12:02 AM

                Well, I'll try to get more links from Brazil. The majority of my links is from wordpress.com, blog.com, etc. None of them are from Brazil.

                Thank you.

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                • izaiasalmeida
                  izaiasalmeida @BailHotline last edited by Mar 2, 2012, 11:59 PM Mar 2, 2012, 11:59 PM

                  Host location/IP is from Brazil, the contact information to.

                  Thank you 🙂

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                  • JamesNorquay
                    JamesNorquay last edited by Mar 3, 2012, 12:02 AM Mar 2, 2012, 11:58 PM

                    A few important things:

                    1. Make sure you have the TLD for that country.

                    2. Make sure you have local content in that laungage for the country.

                    3. Make sure in webmaster tools you target that country.

                    4. Make you have links from that country, i.e geo specific.

                    From my experience hosting will not be a huge rank factor for GEO targeting, I have many websites hosting in the US yet they rank well in GEO areas, yet if it is an ecommerce site I would advise for local hosting.

                    izaiasalmeida 1 Reply Last reply Mar 3, 2012, 12:02 AM Reply Quote 1
                    • izaiasalmeida
                      izaiasalmeida @Syed1 last edited by Mar 2, 2012, 11:58 PM Mar 2, 2012, 11:58 PM

                      The first 2 points are ok. My site is hosted by a Brazilian hosting service and has a Brazilian IP. Also, my domain has the brazilian TLD.

                      The problem with the last point is that is hard to find web 2.0 services, with high authority/pagerank, they are usually crap.

                      Can you tell me what is BBB?

                      Thank you.

                      Syed1 izaiasalmeida 2 Replies Last reply Mar 3, 2012, 7:41 AM Reply Quote 0
                      • BailHotline
                        BailHotline last edited by Mar 3, 2012, 12:02 AM Mar 2, 2012, 10:15 PM

                        Hello there,

                        It seems like you already have the basic idea on ranking in another country, like changing the language and getting links from websites with the relevant country location and suffix (e.g. .uk .fr). This will obviously be a great starting point. Some other things I would consider are:

                        -website contact address, number,  etc.

                        -host location, IP address.

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                        • Syed1
                          Syed1 last edited by Mar 3, 2012, 2:01 AM Mar 2, 2012, 10:01 PM

                          Here are some suggestions to rank specifically in one country

                          The first 2 points could be important or not depending on case by case basis (depending on competition, branding strategy, etc)

                          • Try getting the site hosted on that country's IP/ server
                          • Try using that country TLD
                          • Definitely get lot of national/local signals - country directory links, links from same country hosted sites, BBB or similar accreditation listing in that country,  etc
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