Site does not rank on Google's country specific search engines.

[dlsound]

My site shows up on the first page of 'google.com' but not on the other search engines like google.co.uk / google.co.in / google.com.au. It shows up on the 3rd or 4th page for the most part.

My competitors' sites rank consistently across all geographical versions of Google. Is there something i am missing out on? My website is a web applicaton and not a business listing.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

You're welcome John. Glad I could help.

If you want to keep an eye on these, I don't mind setting you a login up and you can track the phrases from my system? Let me know if you do and I will drop this over on e-mail to you.

Andy

[dlsound]

Andy, I really appreciate the time and effort you have put in.

Last time i checked today, Google IN positioned it on the 4th page. I have tried to nullify the caching/ IP/ location effect on search results.

Maybe it was because of the localization of language that Derek pointed out. Thanks once again Derek

Time to push the rankings further up!

John

[Andy.Drinkwater]

OK, so the results are in

• Google AU - Position 5
• Google IN - Position 8
• Google UK - Position 7
• Google US - Position 5

A lot of the time, search results are messed up when trying to search from your own machine as there can be cache, location, IP and all other kinds of issues.

I hope this has helped.

Andy

[dlsound]

1. I will definitely try it out.

2. Kindly check your inbox Not yet.

3. I will try and get some backlinks using this when i have some spare time.

[acceleratormktg]

1. This has been helpful to us in the past. Give it a try if you don't mind spending the money on the TLDs. Just 301 redirect them to the .com.

2. Even though it is a web app, do you do any sort of blogging or content marketing? What's the URL of the app?

3. What I mean by this is, have you tried building relationships with press/bloggers/content creators located in the countries/geographies that you are targeting?

4. Glad to help!

[dlsound]

1. None.

2. Since it is a web application, there isn't much text content on the webpage. It is a single page application. General instructions on using the web application are in English though.

There is no such targeted content/topic.

3. I don't understand what that means. Can you kindly elaborate?

4. I just realized that in the index.html of the site, there is a lang='en' attribute attached to the html tag. I promptly removed the same and submitted the site in GWT. Thanks for pointing this.

[acceleratormktg]

A few other things you might want to consider:

1. Do you have the country TLDs registered (.au, .co.in, etc.)? Do you have websites at those domains or at least 301ing to your .com?
2. Do you have geographically targeted content? I'm not talking keywords, I'm talking relevant content and topics for the geographies in which your targeting.
3. Have you tried PR outreach in those geographic areas?
4. Do you localize your content (translate to appropriate languages)?

These are four things that have worked wonders for our international clients. Feel free to shoot me back a response or message if you want more ideas or any clarifications. Best of luck!

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Dropped you a reply over John. I will get this setup as soon as I hear back from you.

[dlsound]

Sent to your mailbox.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

No problem at all John. Drop me your URL, search phrases and Google search engines to track to info@inetseo.co.uk

Please also include any of your competitors and we can see where they rank in comparison

Andy

[Andy.Drinkwater]

There are so many reasons why this could be. So when you say your competitors are ranked consistently over all geographical version of Google, are they all ranked highly? How are you testing this? Are you sure this is not your location skewing the results?

I would be happy to do a little testing for you if you wish. I will place these into my SERP tracking and set different Google countries to see where everyone appears.

Andy