How To Check SERPs After Google Changes On ccTLDs/User's Location?

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I think you know that Google ccTLD will no longer change how Google shows you search results. Instead, Google detects where you are, no matter the ccTLD you are on, and automatically serves you search results based on your current location.

I use Scrapebox and Rank Tracker premium plugin to check my SERPs in different countries like.. forever. It is my favorite. After that change, everything is unstable and not accurate.

Any ideas on how to fix that? Maybe @loopline has to add something here...

Also, I have tried the free version of Serplab with same unstable/inaccurate results. Do you know any other tool to suggest?

Thanks
 
Ok. I will bump it once.
 
I do it manually for a number of sites / locations. IMO best method is (state/city) (keyword/keywords) right in the search box. It's pretty frustrating I know.

You can also use the following: search?q=keyword&near=city

Use the + sign if the city has more than one word IE: new+york

MOZ also has location profiles. Not sure how many and what areas / states are supported. Assuming your looking for US localities. There are some paid tools that work quite well.. Iv'e heard brightedge does it well but very expensive.
 
I think you know that Google ccTLD will no longer change how Google shows you search results. Instead, Google detects where you are, no matter the ccTLD you are on, and automatically serves you search results based on your current location.

I use Scrapebox and Rank Tracker premium plugin to check my SERPs in different countries like.. forever. It is my favorite. After that change, everything is unstable and not accurate.

Any ideas on how to fix that? Maybe @loopline has to add something here...

Also, I have tried the free version of Serplab with same unstable/inaccurate results. Do you know any other tool to suggest?

Thanks


I mailed my mailing list on how to do this right after it happened. You might find the free tips link in my sig useful and I send out helpful mails when things like this happen as well.

That said, you just need an ip from the country you want to work with. So if you want france, get french ips. If you want UK, get UK ips.

You can run multiple instances of the rank tracker by running multiple instances of Scrapebox. Then for each instance just work with the ips from the countries you want to rank track for. So if you want France and UK setup 1 instance with your french projects and your french ips and a different instance with your UK projects and UK ips.

Video on multiple instances:



As for how to do that, if you use a delay of 60 and stop after 100 results and use 100 results, and that works for you, even 1 ip will likely work just fine. You can schedule all this while your asleep.

As for proxies, squidproxies.com allows you to pick your proxies, as long as they offer proxies from the country you need and they have a bunch of countries. When this happened I talked with them about if they will allow this and they said yes. They even made a 20% lifetime discount code for my readers, but you can use it

loopline20

Else I list all the providers I recommend here:
http://scrapeboxfaq.com/scrapebox-proxies

obviously back connect/rotating/reverse proxies are not going to be a good choice in this situation. You want dedicated or semi dedicated/shared ips.

One convenient thing as well as to why I like squid proxies for this, is that when they give you an ip, you keep that ip as long as you are a customer. So you don't have to go messing around updating your rank tracker project every month.

Other providers may do this if you ask. But be aware you may need to stay on top of it from time to time, because I did this with one provider and they would have servers and ips that would just die and never come back. Normally if you mail them they will of course replace them and by default they rotate everyones proxies every month, so it would be no big deal if 1 or a few fall off. But I requested to keep the same proxies so after a few months many of my proxies would just be dead and I would have to check them all and mail them for replacements and it was a mess.

In my case I was just posting with them so I just had some python written to grab the proxies all the time and update them on my end, solved the issue there, but I don't think you will have that issue with squidproxies because their model is to have you keep the same proxies. So they won't have them flying all over the place between many users and have the need to rotate them out with new ip blocks and servers etc..

Anyway, my 2 cents.
 
I mailed my mailing list on how to do this right after it happened. You might find the free tips link in my sig useful and I send out helpful mails when things like this happen as well.

That said, you just need an ip from the country you want to work with. So if you want france, get french ips. If you want UK, get UK ips.

You can run multiple instances of the rank tracker by running multiple instances of Scrapebox. Then for each instance just work with the ips from the countries you want to rank track for. So if you want France and UK setup 1 instance with your french projects and your french ips and a different instance with your UK projects and UK ips.

Video on multiple instances:



As for how to do that, if you use a delay of 60 and stop after 100 results and use 100 results, and that works for you, even 1 ip will likely work just fine. You can schedule all this while your asleep.

As for proxies, squidproxies.com allows you to pick your proxies, as long as they offer proxies from the country you need and they have a bunch of countries. When this happened I talked with them about if they will allow this and they said yes. They even made a 20% lifetime discount code for my readers, but you can use it

loopline20

Else I list all the providers I recommend here:
http://scrapeboxfaq.com/scrapebox-proxies

obviously back connect/rotating/reverse proxies are not going to be a good choice in this situation. You want dedicated or semi dedicated/shared ips.

One convenient thing as well as to why I like squid proxies for this, is that when they give you an ip, you keep that ip as long as you are a customer. So you don't have to go messing around updating your rank tracker project every month.

Other providers may do this if you ask. But be aware you may need to stay on top of it from time to time, because I did this with one provider and they would have servers and ips that would just die and never come back. Normally if you mail them they will of course replace them and by default they rotate everyones proxies every month, so it would be no big deal if 1 or a few fall off. But I requested to keep the same proxies so after a few months many of my proxies would just be dead and I would have to check them all and mail them for replacements and it was a mess.

In my case I was just posting with them so I just had some python written to grab the proxies all the time and update them on my end, solved the issue there, but I don't think you will have that issue with squidproxies because their model is to have you keep the same proxies. So they won't have them flying all over the place between many users and have the need to rotate them out with new ip blocks and servers etc..

Anyway, my 2 cents.

Thank you so much for your helpful information. I have also tried to create multiple Rank Traker instances in one instance of SB. Just copy, pasted and renamed the folder with the Rank Tracker.

The only problem so far, is that I can'f find proxies from the countries I am interested in. Checked squidproxies, by they have not the European countries I need.

Subscribed to your newsletter. Thanks again.
 
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