: Why does Google give different results based on country code for same set of keywords? I live in Luxembourg so my business website should target Luxembourg but also regions of France which are
I live in Luxembourg so my business website should target Luxembourg but also regions of France which are near to Luxembourg.
My website is hosted on servers located in Paris, France - mostly because there is no good hosting offers in Luxembourg.
For the last few months I've been working hard on SEO in order to improve my ranking for specific keywords. My ranking has improved a lot and I have reached position 18 on on google.fr.
However, for the same set of keywords, I'm still at position 70 on google.lu.
Funnily, these keywords include 'Luxembourg', so I'd expect google.lu to give better results.
In Google Webmaster Tools, I've noticed that I can set a target country. I've left that value blank because I don't want to influence results for either countries. Do you think I should set it to Luxembourg? Would that have a negative impact on my SEO performance for google.fr?
What would you suggest for improving my score on google.lu?
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Google will customize search results according to a number of different factors. This means that different users will see different results. These factors include, but are not limited to:
Your search term (obviously).
Previously-visited websites.
Country (local search). i.e. Somebody searching for "football" in America will receive a different result than somebody that is searching for "football" in the UK. The former will receive listings related to American Football, whereas the latter will receive results relating to soccer.
Language (typically set in the user agent of your browser).
Device: Results for mobile will often be different than the results that you get via desktop.
Do you think I should set it to Luxembourg ?
If your target country is Luxembourg, then you should set it as your target country in Webmaster Tools (especially seeing as your domain is .com). Otherwise, you will have to wait until Google automatically figures out what country your site is targeted at (they do this in a number of ways. i.e. what websites are linking to you the most and where are they based).
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