How A Search Engine Determines Site Location

International SEO is a web page issue not a website issues

3 ways The Search Engines Identifies Location

  1. TLD (Top Level Domain, .ca, .cn, .uk)
  2. If it has a .com it goes to

  3. IP Address
  4. Finally if they cant determine site origin.

  5. Link Analysis
  6. Check IP adress to find out where its hosted, this could cause problems with rankings in primary country.

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