How does Google handle local searches like this?

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Hello all,

Hopefully you Google gods can answer this one for me:

Say I am based in a particular city - London. I open my browser, go to google.co.uk and search for 'cheap plumber to fix leaky tap'.

Will Google serve me relevent results to the city I am in? i.e. if there is a plumbing site called 'www.plumberinlondon.com' - then would try and serve me results like that?

Thanks,
Steve.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicktyler
    Google will not serve you local ads unless you specify that in the search. For example you might be in london but looking for a plumber in Liverpool.

    You can however specify your location and if you are signed in you may have allready set a location or made previous searches which will alter the results and will serve local results if you search for 'plumber' or dry 'cleaner' but not so much if you search 'plumber to fix my leaky tap'.

    Google obviously knows where you are from your ip address bu tas far as I can tell doesn't show you the actual local results unless you specify the area in the search query or the location setting.
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    • Profile picture of the author StevieJK
      Thanks, that's what I thought too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Torafox1
    I agree. If you want people from London to actually be able to find your website, specify as part of your keyword the word London. This is also part of SEO local searches.
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  • Profile picture of the author Yeeee Ha
    Hey,

    If you search for "cheap plumber to fix leaky tap" in Google.co.uk then Google may show you results from all over UK unless you specifically specify in the search phrase that you are looking for plumbers in a particular location.
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