To check your site’s google positions from the different country/geographic area people used to (ab)use proxies and VPNs. There is a little known feature in Google Adwords that lets and advertiser test whether
his/her ad is running under a certain keyword. The great thing about it is the ability to choose precise geographic area to view results from and it gives you natural search results as seen from this area. What the tool does, is very simple. It adds [code]&adtest=on[/code]]to the google query string to snap it to the adtest mode. The gl= and gr= variables specify geographic targetting.

If you want to see what pops up for query “blue widgets” in California, you’d use:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=blue+widget&adtest=on&gl=US&gr=US-CA

Check it out.

To get possible values for gl and gr variables, go to Adwords->Tools->Ad DIagnostic Results and examine the url query for your target market.

Nifty, huh?

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