Australia SEO Question

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Hi,

I'm building a website that targets australia. If I want to be ranked on Yahoo/Google, etc when the user clicks "show pages from australia only", how do I do that?

How does the SE determine where a site is from? I know that it is NOT the extension, as most of the results are .com's not .com.au's.

I'm assuming that they go by the IP address of the webhost, meaning that I need to host my website with an Aussie host. Is this correct?

Thanks,
Adam

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For Google, the main factors are either a .com.au domain OR hosting in Australia.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/faq.html#country

4. I'd like my site to return for pages from a specific country.

While all sites in our index return for searches restricted to "the web," we draw on a relevant subset of sites for each country restrict. Our crawlers may identify the country for a site by factors such as the physical location at which the site is hosted, the site's IP address, the WHOIS information for a domain, and its top-level domain.

That said, your site's top-level domain doesn't need to match the country domain for which you'd like it to return. It's also important to keep in mind that our crawlers don't index duplicate content, so creating identical sites at several domains will likely not result in their returning for many country restricts. If you do create duplicate domains, we suggest using a robots.txt file to block our crawler from accessing all but your preferred one.
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Hi,

.com.au or hosting in Australia. Either seems to work for the sites I run.

mnemtsas, Nov 12, 2005 IP

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