Comments on: How to target foreign markets

By: Tom Thomas

Tom Thomas — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:21:27 +0000

I do all of my web hosting through 1&1 and have found them to be excellent. I’m not sure if their servers are in Germany but they are a huge company and must have servers all over the place.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:16:09 +0000

Wow, thanks for the speedy reply.

By: Lammo

Lammo — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:10:42 +0000

I wouldn’t say it’s necessary.. you can do it without (you can specify target country in Google Webmaster Tools), but I think it will help you penetrate the German market beter if you have a .de domain hosted in Germany.

A .com would also do the job though I’d have thought. Have a look at 1&1 hosting – I’ve a feeling their servers are based in Germany?

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:17:20 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply

Is it necessary to buy foreign hosting and a domain name? If I wanted to promote my business to people in Germany, could I just purchase a .com written in German, host it in the UK and translate all the content and the meta? Would It still show up on German search engines?

By: Lammo

Lammo — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:55:48 +0000

There’s always a way Jon – If you can’t find a company that will let you buy hosting based in a particular country, then you should be able to find an individual willing to sub-let a server to you at a price?

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:37:00 +0000

I have found many countries don’t allow you to host, unless you are a resident. What do you do for these countries?

By: Andre Ocean

Andre Ocean — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:15:51 +0000

Starting up something like affiliate marketing in foreign markets needs a lot of research about the bloggers and the internet traffic of those countries.Free oganic traffic routing to our websites is what is the main criteria when we target hese markets. Even I feel that Amazon should have Geo target automatically

By: Lammo

Lammo — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:06:43 +0000

We’ve run a couple of international sites in the past, targeting the US and Australia, and as you say, it’s the geo-targeting that really makes the difference.

Going forward, we have plans to expand into different territories including mainland Europe, so a lot of research is currently being done

By: BLOGERCISE

BLOGERCISE — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:59:27 +0000

So have you been running any international sites? I tend to target the UK or the US specifically with co.uk and com respectively. Although in one case I have built an international site based on a .com but sort to attract a community from all over the world.

I just wish amazon associates were able to geo target automatically! At least adsense can help build some international revenue.