How to NOT appear in Google results in other countries?

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Greg Baka: How to NOT appear in Google results in other countries??
  I have ecommerce sites that only serve US and Canada. Is there a way to prevent a site from appearing in the Google results in foreign countries?
  
  The reason I ask is that we also have a lot of informational pages that folks in other countries are visiting, then leaving right after reading. This is making our overall Bounce Rate very high (64%). When we segment the GA data to look at just our US visitors, then the Bounce Rate drops a lot. (to 48%) ; My understanding is that a low bounce rate often leads to higher Google rankings.
  
  Thanks!
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  Federico Sasso: > How to NOT appear in Google results in other countries??
  I'm not aware of a proper way to do it.
  
  > My understanding is that a low bounce rate often leads to higher Google rankings.
  It's not as simple as that. G has repeatedly denied to use GA BR data for ranking, and I've never seen evidence it would.
  Even if it was, that would hypothetically solve your problem automatically, as ranking is different per-country (it's an over-simplification, of course).
  
  I wouldn't be bothered with high bounce rate from countries you don't serve, not for the business (except wasted bandwidth, if that's poses a problem), nor for ranking.
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  Jim Munro: I am not an expert, +Greg Baka ;, but I would provide a prominent "international shipping policy" link above the fold. This will provide a second action to keep them out of the bounces but I don't think that bounce rate will harm you anyway. I think it's a useful metric, but it might be more for you than robots.
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  SeoWix: +Greg Baka ;to some extents you can define your  ;geo target audience in your GWT.  ;
  in general if it is .com TLD and no local TLD string attached with, it is quite possible they will appear globally if people in other countries search through google search engine without places rather than using their local google.
  appearing on searches globally, also depends on the product description, search engines pick the meta description of your product once they find it close to asked query.
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