403 to filter markets???
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Hello!
I was running an exercise to investigate the market around the main keyword "Retail recruitment" just for the US.
Looking for key competitors, I've found one of them blocking traffic from any other sources but USA. When you try to access that site from any other country it returns a 403 error code. I think the only reason for doing this is to avoid big companies globally based to actually find them or study them in order to compete.
The URL I'm talking about is http://www.c2recruitment.com/... What do you think? Would be another reason to do so?
I also wonder if they are doing that just to avoid undesired traffic in general as it's a kind of market with high amount of impressions but low CTR.
Third theory is that there's some SEO black-magic-for-local-seo-trick I'm missing. Any thoughts?
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