I have a site www.ahmedabadhousing.com..........It ranks well in google.com but not in top 100 for google.co.in(pages from India)... It also ranks well for google.co.in (the web)...I have also changed the target country to India in the webmasters tool...but no effect seen...Please let me know how to do?
What do you mean by rank well, Which keywords ? Please advice which keyword is good on google and worst in co.in
when i search for residential apartments in ahmedabad they rank 16 and 12 in google.com and google.co.in(all the web) respectively but not in top 100 for google.co.in(pages from India)
I would rather not mess around with geo targeting. I did that once and it completely messed up my sites. People were finding my in UAE and other foreign languages.
i suggest you add geo meta tag. One more important thing while showing your pages in india your website should be hosted on indian server if you want good ranking in pages from india.
Maybe, your site is mainly optimized for .com Why not getting some backlinks from .co.in sites and monitor your ranking.
kishorc, If you have many backlinks from many countries, to your site, google decides that you are international connected and because of that rank your site well at google.com, google international. So get backlinks local from you country, from India. That’s it, nothing else.
I agree. Get more links from Indian sites. Also: try adding the site to google local directory. That might help too. Sometimes it take a while
By default, domain names with a .com TLD are assumed by Google to be targeting Google.com visitors. By default domain names with a .co.in TLD are assumed by Google to be targeting Google.co.in visitors. You need to decide if you would rather rank in Google.com? or Google.co.in? It is NOT very likely that you will ever rank well in both. If you would rather rank in Google.com then you are perfectly fine as you are. If, however, you would like for your .com domain to target Google.co.in then you need to get a Google Webmaster Tools account, verify your site under that account, and set your Geographical targeting to India. Then you need to work on getting backlinks from other sites that also target Google.co.uk. Hopefully your web host is also in India. It's not mandatory, but it does give you a slight edge if you're trying to rank in Google.co.in.