Geotargeting for directories on same domain

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Matt18, Sep 16, 2011.

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    Hi

    I have a problem. I am opening a global webstore that will be translated into many languages. I will be selling local products and will therefore have a different website for each country. Now some countries speak the same language and those countries will be on the same domain. For example USA, UK and Australia.

    I will put it in directories: domain.com/USA, domain.com/UK, domain.com/Australia.

    Now here is my problem. How can I tell Google and other SE that each directory is for a different country? I mean I don't mind if someone from UK comes to USA shop, but it doesn't make sense and I would much rather make UK version appear in SERP if he or she is from UK.

    I know I can set geotargeting in webmastertools for domains. Is there a similar solution for directories?

    Thank you for your help.

    BR,
    Matt
     
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    I just found out, that I can add one domain more than once through google webmaster tools.

    so I added one profile for domain.com/uk, another profile for domain.com/usa,... Then I was able to set geotargeting for each of this profiles.

    Can anyone confirm that this is ok? Will Google understand what I am trying to do there or is this just a "bug" and webmaster tools are not supposed to be used that way?
     
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