Keywords not ranking at google.COM, only at google.com.br

[Ricardocpereira]

I have a website registered with .com.br. And I have noticed that some (not all of them, some are ranking the same way at both "Googles") of its keywords are ranking only when I search at google.com.br, but if I search the same term at google.COM, those pages aren't ranking.

What could I do to rank not just at google.com.br, but also at google.com. My chrome, for example, redirects searches automatically for google.com. If this happens with a large number of people, the impact in my website's visits would be very harmful.

Please, help me.

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

Is your business local to Brazil and a city in Brazil? Or are you an international business that provides a service / solution outside of Brazil and internationally? The reason I say this is because you may be sending signals to search engines that you are only local to Brazil and have no need to rank abroad.

Here are a couple of great resources from Moz that can help get your brain jogging:

• The International SEO Checklist
• Learn International SEO

Also, if you have a Search Console profile setup for your website, make sure that (if you want to rank outside of just Brazil) that you are not just internationally targeting Brazil.

Double check your robots.txt as well to make sure you're not inadvertently blocking search engines as well.

Lastly, it may be a good idea to post your website to the forum so we could take a look at a more detailed level. But if you can't, I would look into the above resources as a starting point. I'm sure there are most indepth answers to come!

Hope this helps - let me know if you have any questions about what I've answered here!
Patrick

[Ricardocpereira]

Hi Patrick, thank you so much. The website is located in Brazil and its target public is from the same country. Actually, I don't intend to rank abroad.

What I have noticed, is that my google chrome is automatically showing results from google.com, but these results are "brazilians" and so most part of the websites shown are brazilians ones. If I try a google.com/ncr, the results are anothers.

I would like to have my ranks at google.com (Brazilian local) as well as for google.com.br, but rankings in both websites are different, even if I still receive local results. That is almost making me "nuts".

[MikeGracia]

This is good advice, but as far as I'm away if you have a ccTLD (.com.br) that you cannot change the international targeting away from the country of your ccTLD, you can only do this with a gTLD.