Hi All, I need help . just want to know , If we change the Geographic Location in GWT so our current ranking will effect or not ? Because I have changed the Geographic Location so our current top ranking keywords disappear . Previously it was set Nill But now we set it with Australia . Please guys help me out.
How do you do the tracking of keywords? Is it by local search engine or in general (google.com). There might be a slight difference with the rankings but geographical location is an advantage especially if you are targeting local users.
I have checked manually by going Google.com.au . We are targeting Australian Customers. Previous was Geographic Location was Nill but now changed and its Australia . so question was changing geographic location in GWT would be effect on our ranking ?
Setting your country location in GWT CAN have a significant affect on your rankings! But how dramatic change depends on: 1) Your current keyword ranking and competition. 2) Your domain suffix - com or co.uk etc Google assumes that if you have a country suffix then you target that country. @khaty refers to Google Places listings which works on a different algorithm than GWT country location. You can only point your website to one target country location. Google tries to work this out themselves but they get wrong - that is why you can override their guess work using GWT.