Google International Targeting

[iGamer]

Hi Everyone,

First post for me, I wonder if you guys can help. My sportsbook affiliate site is a few months old and I never selected the settings in Google Search Console to target the UK. Consequently I'm getting lots of traffic from everywhere in the world, and my biggest country is Kenya.

I've since set the setting to target the UK, but 2 days later am still getting more African traffic than UK, which is obviously leading to lower conversions due to my UK bookie offers.

Any idea how long it takes Google to change the geo target to send me more UK traffic?

Thanks in advance

[pokeraussie]

Should have got a .co.uk if you were targeting the UK.

[Sherlock]

It can be also spam? Try to filter the Kenya in Google Analytics and watch the behavior of that African traffic. Focus on bounce rate and time on site. It happens a lot that those exotic countries deliver bounce rate 99.9% and <1sec on site which is obviously some totally **** traffic doing weird seo tricks, attacks etc (usually from one Ip address). Even this traffic somehow can be marked as from SE or Google.

[maxpower]

Settings up things in Google Search Console will not solve it in a few days, give GWT more time..

[LottoCore]

make sure your html Lang tags are correctly set to EN-GB as well.

As one member pointed out it might be spam

[Celebrationbird]

Yea make sure html tags are to your target country. Also some traffic is better than none

[wonderpunter]

my guess is your site is not strong enough to rank in one of the most saturated markets in the world, hence why you are seeing african traffic. or it could be that your site and content isn't good enough for prime google positions. either way you can never really get a good gauge on a 2 month old betting site

[megabonuscasino]

check your analytics if the traffic in norefer because then the traffic is from bots.

[MrBinaryAff]

Have you sorted your problem iGamer?

[iGamer]

Have you sorted your problem iGamer?

It looks like it's slowly starting to solve. UK traffic during the last week beat traffic from Kenya Have started seeing more signups and deposits as a result.

Thanks for all the comments and tips everyone, much appreciated. The lang tags were already on there so thats ok. It looks like the African traffic has similar bounce rates and time on site as the UK so I'm thinking its unlikely to be bots. Hopefully the UK traffic will continue to increase in time and its just a waiting game. Will update here in a month.

[iGamer]

One option I'm considering is to create a multi-"language" website - with different versions of English targeting different countries. Does anyone have any recommendations for wordpress plugins eg https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/ It looks like there are quite a few. What I ideally want is to be able to post 1 article but have the lang tags and affiliate links specific to that country.

eg tipsdaddy.com/aus/manu-v-man-city would have EN-aus lang tags in order to rank higher in Google Australia and have Australian affiliate links, otherwise it would be the same article.

Any recommendations or thoughts? Thanks in advance.

[pokeraussie]

One option I'm considering is to create a multi-"language" website - with different versions of English targeting different countries. Does anyone have any recommendations for wordpress plugins eg https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/ It looks like there are quite a few. What I ideally want is to be able to post 1 article but have the lang tags and affiliate links specific to that country.

eg tipsdaddy.com/aus/manu-v-man-city would have EN-aus lang tags in order to rank higher in Google Australia and have Australian affiliate links, otherwise it would be the same article.

Any recommendations or thoughts? Thanks in advance.

I would advise against it. It would be incredibly spammy.

[Soplica]

I can't even put Lang tags on my website. Tried plugins and in the webmasters search console it doesn't appear

[PROFRBcom]

I would advise against it. It would be incredibly spammy.

Hate to bump a year old thread like this, but, I am curious what about that approach is spammy? Unless I'm understanding it incorrectly, it's just customizing the page to the user's needs and wants?

[ApostaGanha]

use hreflang

[hcgroup]

Hello,

Logically, I do not recommend to target any country.

Because;

Nowadays most of the people are using IP changer programs. And also an English man may live in another country as well.

So I think Google does not take care of this setting much.

That is my opinion of course.

Google is cleverer than us!

Cheers!

Hi Everyone,

First post for me, I wonder if you guys can help. My sportsbook affiliate site is a few months old and I never selected the settings in Google Search Console to target the UK. Consequently I'm getting lots of traffic from everywhere in the world, and my biggest country is Kenya.

I've since set the setting to target the UK, but 2 days later am still getting more African traffic than UK, which is obviously leading to lower conversions due to my UK bookie offers.

Any idea how long it takes Google to change the geo target to send me more UK traffic?

Thanks in advance