How to optimize a website for a specific country? Options

[Pius]

Hi,
Am doing SEO for my site for the last 2 months and didn’t get listed in any of the pages on Google.com.au organic search. The keywords I used are “web designers melbourne” and “web designers sydney”. I want to optimize this site specifically for Australia. What step do I need to follow to get listed on the Google search results? Please help!!!

Thanks,
Nanda.
web designers sydney

[Christian J]

The site is indexed by google, but its pagerank appears to be zero.

Make sure you don't take part in the kind of link schemes described on http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/b...py?answer=66356 --I suspect Google might react to pages like this one: http://www.newcastle-web-design-australia....nk-partners.php

FWIW, this forum (and many others) uses the rel="nofollow" attribute on links, making Google ignore them when it comes to pagerank. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

I want to optimize this site specifically for Australia

According to http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/b...py?answer=62399 the country-specific domain name should be enough.

See also http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com...l-websites.html