I have a US site (hosted in US, .com domain, content mostly usefull for US users) which receives a certian portion of non-US visits from countries that has no value to the site (except may be if they click few adsense ads). 2 questions? 1) is receiving non-US visits a bad thing? Like is there a quote how many times each site is going appear in SERP and if it shows there more for non-US countries, it shows less for US countries? 2) is there any way to tell google send more US (other than changing content to be more geo specific)? thnak you
You can receive visitors from whole world, more important and the best important - who linked you. For example, if you will receive a tons backlinks from turkey, after time your website will change geo locate to turkey in search engine and there will be better ranked in serps on the same kaywords.
Very easy to loose geo target for new website. There important which rate us_backlinks:world_backlinks. This is base for google how geo targeting your website. There also counted how manyc C class of IP linking you. For example, you can to have 100K backlinks from just one huge forum or community website located oversas US, but just 5 strong links from US with difrent C class will beat this 100K.
well,.. why not you use your own service (on your Sign ) you can choose where the traffic coming from,.. LOL
You can set the GEO Targeting in Webmasters tools to US and it will help you to receive traffic from US only But you can not get 100% traffic from US.
Non US traffic is not bad thing.You should collect more backlinks to increase targeted traffic from U.S.
@atxsurf you already offering services like visitors from US and asking for this is how much realistic? GEO targeting for natural search is not a tough task to tell search engines that where you want to target your web site,first of all target your GEO location at title and content so that SE's can identify your location preferences then set GEO in Webmaster tools too. Back Links from other countries may effect your location too because search engines find them as popularity votes from a specific country,community of interest,age groups,groups and category so try to make links from country specific areas like links from US sites,make popular your website between US groups and communities and find out right categories from specific locations.
You can provide Google a hint through Google Webmaster Tools regarding your target audience. If you are getting non-US based traffic then its not a matter of panic. But if numbers of US visitors are less in comparison to non-US based then its something to worry about as your target market is US. Since you are hosting your site in US and writing content related to US the factor remains is the incoming links to your site. Google use many factors to determine the ranking. It uses the hosting server locations, TLD of the domain, your website content etc. So if you are getting links from any website these factors will be also used to evaluate their targeting geo area. Try to obtain links from US based sites.
If your website contains special products only for American people and your business is really limited to US, then having traffic from other countries is useless BUT its not bad at all. Traffic from every country is good and can help your Alexa rank and also its makes your website more popular and if you want to make your website global in the future, its more easier. But if you want that Google knows your website for USA, you should target it on Google webmaster tools. In "Site settings" panel, you can target your website to any country you want and in this case you tell Google that my website is mainly designed for the people from the targeted country.