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Hi Friends,
Here my targeted location is Australia...What its possible to bring a traffic from Australia...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...

Please suggest me...am waiting for your reply...good suggestions are appreciate...

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A short, practical checklist of high‑impact steps to get visible in Google Australia (builds on points from , , and @RH‑Calvin but goes deeper).

First confirm indexability and crawl health: verify the site in Search Console, use the Coverage/Pages reports and the URL Inspection tool, submit an up‑to‑date XML sitemap, and confirm there are no accidental robots.txt, noindex or mis‑applied canonical rules blocking Googlebot. These checks resolve many “not showing” problems before doing any targeting work (Google: Crawling & indexing). (developers.google.com)

For multi‑regional English sites, prefer explicit URL variants + hreflang rather than guessing: create dedicated AU pages or folders and add bidirectional hreflang entries (absolute URLs + self‑reference + x-default) so Google serves the en‑AU pages to Australian users. The legacy Search Console country tick‑box is no longer the relied‑upon fix; hreflang and URL structure are the live signals. See Google’s guidance on localized versions. (developers.google.com)

Example hreflang snippet (place in <head> on each variant):

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-AU" href="https://example.com/au/page" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en"    href="https://example.com/page" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://example.com/page" />

Local presence matters beyond tags: claim and fully optimize the Google Business Profile, publish correct NAP (consistent format), show AU phone (+61), AUD pricing or shipping info, Australian testimonials/case studies, and secure links from Australian organizations and media — and add LocalBusiness structured data to location pages so local features can surface. See Google’s Business Profile help and LocalBusiness structured‑data guidance. ()

Finally, measure and iterate: create an Australia audience/segment in GA4 and monitor organic changes, clicks and conversions (don’t confuse low index counts with poor relevance). If pages remain unindexed after fixes, validate fixes in Search Console and watch for manual actions or quality issues. ()

Summary: fix indexability first, serve clear AU variants with hreflang/URLs, add Google Business + LocalBusiness markup, and track AU traffic in GA4. These steps narrow the gap between “doing SEO” and actually ranking on Google.com.au.

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Member Avatar for canadafred

Get a dot au domain and have the web site hosted on Australian soil.

Member Avatar for jeffer08

We can use the example of a Web Designer and Developer in Melbourne, Australia.

  1. The website should be hosted in the country and if possible the city in which you plan on targeting with your online marketing strategy.

  2. The website should have on page search engine optimisation which is tailored towards the region - country - city. So, in other words these three elements, if they are identified as the target market, should be mentioned in titles, keywords, meta tags, content, on page titles, links etc within the website.

  3. Any controllable external links to the website should have a sprinkling of the region - country - city within them, without over doing it.

  4. The website should have a fully qualified domain name. In this case .com.au

Member Avatar for RH-Calvin

Check Google adword tool & download keywords which is popular in your region just by selection your country. Use those keywords in your content. If you are working on SMO than you must join groups, communities, pages related to your country & promote it there.

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