Google Webmaster Tools & Site's Geographic Target

If you're signed up with Google Webmaster Tools and have .com domains hosted with 1&1 you'll probably have the eternal problem of Google's assesment of which results your site should appear when users search.

I always have this problem. I've got a natural inclination to buy domains with 1&1 which forces me to nearly always buy .uk domains. But now I don't have to because of the ability to set a geographic target within the Google Webmasters Tools.

Has anyone had any success with it yet - its been "out" a month apparently?

I always thought I'd have a problem with my route planners site (don't really work on it) because it was a .com but never got round to checking the distribution of the location of visitors. After looking I found that 85% of my traffic was from the UK anyway even with a large proportion of the keywords used including "USA". V. strange. I'll have to try it on my usb turntables site (another one that I've left to pasture).

I'll let you know the impact of setting a UK geographic association.