How to do geo targeting for domain and sub directories in Webmaster tool?

[rahul11]

Hello All,

How can i do geo targeting in multiple countries on my ** root domain and sub **directories in Webmaster tool.

My domain is "abc.com" and i want to target three countries

UAE , Kuwait, Saudi arabia.

So, Can i assign geo targeting in Webmaster tool ,  Root domain for UAE country and make other two sub directories for Kuwait and saudi ?

abc.com - UAE (geo targeting)

abc.com/kw - Kuwait (geo targeting)

abc.com/sa - Saudi  (geo targeting)

Or

Root doamain should be not assign for any country and Make three sub directories for UAE, Kuwait , and saudi and targeting them there geo locations.

abc.com - Unlisted (geo targeting)

abc.com/uae/ - UAE (geo targeting)

abc.com/kw/ - Kuwait (geo targeting)

abc.com/sa/ - Saudi  (geo targeting)

[gfiorelli1]

Actually what you are asking is quite easy.

First of all you must create as many GWT profiles as are the subfolders you want to geotarget.

When those profiles have been created, you must go to "Configuration/Settings" and choose the country you want the subfolder to geotarget.

in the case you want the main root of your domain to target "all the world", then I suggest you to implement the rel="alternate" hreflang mark-up, in order to not having the "global" version of the site (or any other version with a strong link profile), outranking the other versions of your own site.