Ranking better in different countries than in the UK

[geckonm]

My URL is: www.geckonewmedia.comMy friend's site is being ranked in the top 10 in Google in countries such as Norway, Poland, Spain, Germany and France for the term "web design Edinburgh"The site is UK based and it's ranking on page 3 over here. I went into the webmaster tools and changed the location setting to UK on Monday this week as I thought that might be the issue. So far there's been no change.Can anyone help me out with the reason why it might be ranking so well abroad but not in the UK?Thanks

[DeanAndrews]

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[OlegKorneitchouk]

I see you as #18. My guess is that you have lots of backlinks from sites that are in Europe but not so much from US based sites. I would run competitor link audits of our site vs top ranking sites for those terms in US.

1. www.arcas.co.uk
2. www.tigerchick.com
3. www.webdesignsedinburgh.co.uk
4. www.prettyklicks.com/web-design-edinburgh/
5. www.webwisecreative.co.uk
6. www.70two.co.uk
7. 11beats.co.uk
8. www.mercurytide.co.uk
9. www.clooti.co.uk
10. www.dialogue-web-design-edinburgh.co.uk