Quick question about country specific organic results
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Do you think that if your website is from your home country. You will rank better for some keyword even when you dont have much page authority when compared to other websites having much higher page authorities from other countries.
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Thank you so much
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Thank you so much
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Thank you so much
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Yes if it builds community and leads to backlinking.
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Yes if it builds community and leads to backlinking.
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and one more thing @peter do you think that having an active Q and A forum like this one on ur site helps in SEO
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@peter yeah I have all reasons to believe ur point...because this is what is happening for me also... agree...thanks for replying
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I work mostly for companies in Canada, for those targeting only the Canadian market (vs also US or globally) I've found webmaster tools setting for 'target users' to have the biggest most immediate effect on improving Canadian company search results from within Canada.
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No offense but I dont think that having a country level domain will help me...more than that if the website is hosted in the same country and am getting more traffic from my own country I think I might get benefitted....neways... wat do you think?
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In my opinion you still have to compete with them.. the only way i see you can out rank them is by having a country level domain like .co.in or similar!
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I know it that other website is not from India by seeing their contact details
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how do you know that other website is not from India.. its like they are not hosted from the Indian IP?
I think not in this case... but if you have a country specific domain then this is quite possible!
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you dint get my point
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Thanks @Moosa for replying. I will explain you...
If I have a website hosted in India and me and my target audience is also from India. I think I will be ranking better for a particular keyword than other websites for the same keyword which are having high PA/DA but not from India.
So things become very easy for me to rank #1 for some keyword when there is no website/competition from India.
I just wanted to confirm this thing here.
What do you think?
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Your question is not clear to me, so you want to say that if you have an Italian based website so that you can rank better in some keywords (may be location based) against your competitors although your DA/PA is lower than the competitor…
In my experience yes! But if you have more websites from the same country then you have to compete!
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Yes.
Since the venice update, Google is putting preferences on businesses located in the area that people are searching.. Do some research here on SEOMOZ for local SEO for info on how to get local sites properly optimized.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/local-seo-checklist-for-new-sites-whiteboard-friday
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-basics-of-local-seo-whiteboard-friday
Greg
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