Customise Google Search To Any Country Instantly

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I came across a very cool feature when doing a Google search today. I like to see the different search engine ranking positions for different keywords and keyword phrases for specific countries. This is important when doing internet marketing as to how your doing with targeting users in say South Africa, United Kingdom, USA etc…

Let me show you exactly what I mean and this easy search tip below.

Using &gl= Google Search Customisation

When I type “How To BackUp Your WordPress Database to LocalHost” in google.co.za guess what, webdesignlove.co.za comes up in position 1 for South African googlers.

But does the website come up as number one position for US or UK searches for example? The answer is no and here is the proof using the &gl=us or &gl=uk customised Google search.

US Search Results for “How To BackUp Your WordPress Database to LocalHost”

UK Search Results for “How To BackUp Your WordPress Database to LocalHost”

So how did I get to see what US and UK searchers are seeing but not leaving my google.co.za webpage?

The answers is to simply add the &gl=us or &gl=uk tag on the end of any google search result in the url address bar.

So when I first search using google.co.za for “How To BackUp Your WordPress Database to LocalHost” I got this result in my address bar:

http://www.google.co.za/search?hl=en&biw=1280&bih=709&q=How+To+BackUp+Your+WordPress+Database+to+LocalHost&oq=How+To+BackUp+Your+WordPress+Database+to+LocalHost&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=19367l19367l0l19849l1l1l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0

Then I customised it for US searchers by adding the &gl=us tag on the end of that same search address so it looked like this:

http://www.google.co.za/search?hl=en&biw=1280&bih=709&q=How+To+BackUp+Your+WordPress+Database+to+LocalHost&oq=How+To+BackUp+Your+WordPress+Database+to+LocalHost&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=19367l19367l0l19849l1l1l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0&gl=us

So I bolded the only little bit I changed. Great hay.

So now you know how to customise your Google search results to see which web pages are ranking on the first page of Google search results for different countries without leaving your webpage using the &gl=us or &gl=uk code.