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Sending accurate report to your customers that can match the results they see in the browser can make the difference between you and your competition.
You probably know that Google displays different results in different countries and most of the times it's impossible for your reports to match the results from your customer's browser if you are not using proxy servers.
With Google Preview Tool you can create a search engine that will gather in Advanced Web Ranking the exact results as they are seen by someone from that region. But let's see how you can do it.
Below you can find a quick step-by-step tutorial that will help you quickly create your custom search engines to check your website rankings by specific geo locations.
To create your first custom search engine go to the [Tools] menu and select [Google Preview Tool]. A new window will appear from where you can Add, Modify or Remove a custom search engine.
You can add a new search engine by selecting the [Add] button. In the new window you need to enter some custom settings:
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Host. Select the local Google search engine from where you are looking to gather results; for example google.co.uk, google.de, google.fr etc
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Country. Select the country where you want to see local rankings
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Region. Within that specific country you can select a region, if available
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City. To narrow even more the results you can select also the city from that region
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Language. Select the display language
When you finish entering all these settings, press the [OK] button to save the settings for your new search engine.
Once the search engine is created, you need to add it to your project from [Project Settings]. To do this, go to the [Project] menu and select [Project Settings]. From the [Search Engines] tab, select the [Edit search engines] option and search for your custom search engine just created. The name of the search engine will be "Google Preview Country(Host, Region, City - Web/AdWords)". Here you can preview some examples:
When you finish selecting your desired search engines, press the [OK] button to save your settings and close the new window.
Now, you will be able to see in the search engines list from the left panel all the custom search engines you added.
With Google Preview Tool you can create as many search engines as you want for each of your client's project.