Hello 3 days ago I played with the "Set geographic target" feature from webmaster tools and I set it to "Do not associate a geographic location with this site" for one of my websites. I mention that the respective website is an articles directory containing English articles and translated versions to 10 foreign languages; .info domain name, US ip address. Since I made that association I have no traffic from google for any of the article pages, excepting the translated versions whose traffic remained the same (and little increased). I practically have no traffic from google to the original English articles but for the translated versions only. This problem didn't exist since I played with that feature from webmaster tools. Yesterday I associated the geographic target to USA (see the attachment). I learned that if no association is made by the webmaster, Google automatically associates a website to the region or country where the site's ip address resides. So, I think my website was previously associated with US (but i am not sure)... now I manually re-associated my website with US. What do you think, is that ok to get back the visitors for the English article pages? And... I would like to know... is there another way to modify settings in order to get them exactly like before playing with this tool?
Google uses different things when it comes to site association to any region. These things may include IP address of your host. Extension of your site, like .pk belongs to Pakistan The option you mentioned in the webmaster tools