How to change your location for local search results?

[coolhandluc]

Hi Everybody

Back in december 2015 I came across this article https://gofishdigital.com/google-results-change-location/  explaining how to change location for local search results using the google emulation tool by setting up new coordinates. This was also picked up by mikeblumenthals' blog as being one of the best way of doing this. I tried it at the time and it worked very well. I tried using it last week and again this week but my location no longer seems to update. I have tried it on fifferent computers located in different locations and still it doesn't work. Does anyone know if this feature is no longer available and if not what else they'd recommend to verify local search results.

Thanks

[coolhandluc]

OMG! thank you so much donna. Works a treat

[DonnaDuncan]

Bright Local just released a new (free) tool you can use to specify a location and search term and see Google or Google Local results.  You can specify city, state or ZIP. Seems to work pretty well.

https://www.brightlocal.com/local-search-results-checker/

[coolhandluc]

That doesn't work really. I want to be able to specify the location very specifically. This doesn't work

[Mustansar]

Hi Neil,

I think, we still can change location here is the guide for you

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/179386?hl=en-GB&ref_topic=3036131

[coolhandluc]

Damn google! Thanks eric

[GlobeRunner]

I tried using it last week and again this week but my location no longer seems to update.

As far as we know, recently Google has changed this feature (turned it off). So, it's very difficult now to use Google to change your location and see results as if you're in another location. Pretty much the only thing you can do now is use a proxy service or VPN to change your location.