I want to just go over a few things that helped me when I was ranking and trying to get my clients results in the past that had a international business.
THIS MISTAKE IS MADE ALL OF THE TIME: If you want your traffic to come from USA and you live in perhaps India do not rank in India first! Rank in the USA then use a sub domain carrying over the authority and rank in the other countries second.
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Rank in harder markets first then build authority to your website and then make subdomains to then rank in the foreign countries.
