Thread: Why is ranking different in different countries?

Hi,
Does anyone know why websites do well in google for certain territories and badly for others when they have a dot.com address?
I have noticed differences in google australia to google uk.

[QUOTE=car insurance;56]Hi,
Does anyone know why websites do well in google for certain territories and badly for others when they have a dot.com address?
I have noticed differences in google australia to google uk.[/QUOTE]

there are hundreds of defining factors including:

geotargetting of domains
IP location of server
link profile (links from certain countries)
relative bounce rates in certain countries

the list goes on and on, do you have a specific site you are working on that you want help with? if so post here and let us know!

MOGmartin

As MOGmartin says there can be many factors affecting this thing,
the one that i like is IP location and traffic coming from that particular area.

yes, i agree one of the reasons is the IP location



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Google give preference to local sites hosted on local servers.

If you have a site based in the US, and all things are equal, your site will get preference to viewers in the US.

This is because Google knows what deems important for researchers thus gives a specific result for someone who is researching on UK or Aust. But in SEO you can optimize your site for any target local.This sounds permissible but entails a lot of hardwork.If you want your site to rank both in google.co.uk and google.au then link to websites in those targeted country.

Maybe IP location is a factor but Google priorities the extention website address like "com.au" for Australia and "com.uk" for UK. So as you can see the result on search engines (local), there are many website that if you will search in Google Australia, a lot of ".com.au" are on the search result, also the same result as searching on other Google country search.

The mere factor that your suffering a dropped off rankings in Google is because the links on your site "maybe" not relevant or Google penalized you for having a spam promotion. I don't mean anything, I'm speculating the cause why you have a big rank drop in Google.

Hi,

One important story – beyond the scope of this assessment – would be to rank countries according to the amount of threatened forest lying outside frontiers. Such an index would be useful for identifying countries where unique forest ecosystems are on the verge of extinction.

Simple thing you have understand is Google providing better results. As MOGmartin mentioned all reasons for it.

why it happens?
If you want to purchase iphone and you are using co.uk that mean you like to purchase from UK site.
If Google shows some site from iran...Then you never gonna purchase from it.

It display different result in different countries because google have different datacenters.

The competitive landscape of a keyword varies from market to market, something that is very competitive in the UK, could be fairly easty to rank for in Australia. If you have a .com address and your hosting is not in your main market, you can use the [I]DOCTYPE[/I] lang indicator to specify your home market, such as [I]en-GB[/I] would indicate that your main market is the UK, as supposed to [I]en-AU[/I] for Australia and [I]en-US[/I] for the states.

I agree with MOGmartin. IP address and Geotargetting of domain are the reason for different ranking in different countries. Every country prefer their local domain first.

[lang=sv]Google anpassar sin visning efter olika länder. Sverige har t ex google.se som skiljer sig från google.com. För att ranka bra i olika länder behvös många länkar från de länder du vill ranka högt på.[/lang]