: Can we tell search engines (google, yahoo) that a particular website is geographical region specific? I have a website which caters to a specific district. It is of no use if the visitor is

@Ravi8258870

You cannot tell the Google/Bing to be district specific but you tell the Google that is site is a country specific.

Google will give preference to that site in local searches, i.e country specific. If your site is about a particular district in the country, then I would suggest to get your business listed in Google map, maps.google.com/.
This will surely give your site a preferences in searches coming from that district

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@Cofer257

Yes, you can.

A quick search on Google will reveal this page, from Google's own Support site: support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=62399
Essentially, you should set the geographic target in the 'Geographic Target' section in Google Webmaster Tools.

However, since your domain is country-specific, you might not need to. If you want to geographically target people in a certain part of the country however, you should have the address in the footer, for example, where search engines can see it often. This is no no way a sure-fire way of doing it, but as far as I know, it's the only way to at least try.

This sometimes also even get you an automatic pin on Google Maps.

Hopefully that helps.

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