Thread: Website Optimizing for Specific Countries

Here are a few of the top factors that contribute to international ranking success:
• Owning the proper domain extension (e.g., .com.au, .co.uk, .fr, .de, .nl) for the country that your business is targeting
• Hosting your website in the country you are targeting (with a country-specific IP address)
• Registering with local search engines:
— Google
— Yahoo!:
— Bing:
• Having other sites from the same country link to you
• Using the native language on the site (an absolute requirement for usability)
• Placing your relevant local address data on every page of the site
• Defining your preferred region in Google Webmaster Tools

yes this is really useful and if you are targeting for any specific country then you have to participate in local sites of that country.

i agreed with your all points.

the most important point is domain extension for targeting a specific country

Thanks for sharing. It is really useful for me.