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Help with keyword vs location

by Phildave
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Hi,

I am sure that there is an easy answer to this, but for the life of me cannot think of it...................

When looking at keywords is there a way of finding what country the search originated from (ie. location) to decide if it should be UK or US biased ?

I ask this because I am in the following dilemma :

I live in the UK and want to set up a website about widgets and monitize it with Ebay/Amazon etc.
Suppose BOTH "widgets.com and widgets.uk" are available.
If I go with "widgets.com" presumably the majority of my traffic would come from the US so would use Ebay/Amazon.COM with prices/locations in US - not good for my UK customers and a tradgedy if thats where most of my customers are.
If I go with "widgets.co.uk" presumably traffic would be UK biased and I would use Ebay/Amazon.co.uk. Prices would then be in GBP as well as UK biased so could lose out on US customers.

How do you decide whether to use UK or US based affiliates.

Apologies for it being so long

Phil
#keyword #location
  • Profile picture of the author robfrancis
    Originally Posted by Phildave View Post

    I live in the UK and want to set up a website about widgets and monitize it with Ebay/Amazon etc.
    Phil
    Hi Phil,

    You are in the UK so you could purchase the .com domain and host it with a UK host. Then it would still appear in the google.co.uk SERPs as well as US SERPs.

    As for the currency and flavor/flavour of the site, you could use something called geotargeting. If you Google this term Wikipedia comes up first and explains it more thoroughly than I can in this humble post. The bottom line is that the same site can serve up different content depending on where the visitor is coming from.

    HTH (Hope This Helps),
    Rob
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