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Proxies for Rank Tracking: Country, City, GB and Cost

What decides the search results you see, how precise a proxy location can be, and how to estimate the traffic of a daily rank check.

Why location changes search results

Google lists four sources for the location it uses: your device, Home or Work addresses saved in your Google account, your past activity on Google, and your IP address. When it uses your IP, the result is labelled "From your internet address".

So a proxy only controls the last one. If the browser is signed in, has location permission, or has searched from another place before, those signals can pull results back to your real location. Adding a place name to the query also gives local results, which is a separate way to check a city without any proxy.

Country, state and city: what a proxy can target

Country, state and city: what a proxy can target
ItemHow you choose itCoverage
Country, Budget lineThe -country tail in the username, or when generatingRotating residential, 195+ countries
State, city or carrier, Premium lineWhen generating the connection; state and city also with -state and -city username tailsMajor cities; small towns may exit at country level
City in Russia or SingaporeNot availableCountry level only
Fixed city for repeated checksBuy a static IP in that countryThe same IP for 1 to 90 days

Source: Proxy302 product facts, checked 12 November 2026. On the Premium line the -state and -city tails in the username work from 12 November 2026; carrier, ZIP and system tails do not, so choose the carrier when generating.

Check results from another country

  1. Step 1

    Generate a rotating residential proxy for the target country. For a city, use the Premium line and pick the state or city when you generate it.

  2. Step 2

    Run the script below. It prints the exit and stops if the country is not the one you want.

  3. Step 3

    Open a clean browser profile through the proxy: signed out of Google, location permission denied, language set for that country. Search, then compare with the same query from your own location.

  4. Step 4

    Record the country, city and time next to every result you save, so a change in position is not confused with a change of location.

Script: verify the exit country before a check

import requests

WANT = "US"  # country you want the search results for
PROXY = "http://LOGIN:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT"
proxies = {"http": PROXY, "https": PROXY}

info = requests.get("https://ipinfo.io/json", proxies=proxies, timeout=20).json()
print(info.get("ip"), info.get("country"), info.get("region"), info.get("city"))
if info.get("country") != WANT:
    raise SystemExit("Exit country is not " + WANT + ", do not run the check")

Example with the requests library; fill in the values from your console. It prints the exit IP, country, region and city.

How many GB a daily rank check needs

Traffic is keywords × locations × checks per day × the size of one response. Measure the size of your own response first, because it depends on the page and the tool. As an illustration only, 200 keywords in 3 locations is 600 requests a day; if one response measures 0.1 MB, that is 60 MB a day, 1.8 GB in 30 days, which is about US$2.70 on the Budget line at US$1.50 per GB.

Traffic bought as GB has no expiry, so a small monthly check can draw on one purchase for a long time. For the trade-off between GB and a lease, see the pay-per-GB guide.

Keep the request rate within the search engine terms

Google's terms bar using automated means to access content in violation of its machine-readable instructions, and bar disrupting its services. Read the terms of every search engine you query, space the requests out, and check whether the engine offers an official data interface for your use.

A proxy changes where a request comes from. It does not make an automated request permitted. Keep the volume modest and respect the rules of the service.

FAQ

Why do my rankings look different from another country?

Search results depend on location and language. Google uses device location, saved places, past activity and the IP address, so results differ by place.

Is a country-level proxy enough for rank tracking?

For national results, yes. For results that differ by city, use the Premium line, which lets you choose a state or city when you generate the connection, or add the place to the query.

Can I rank-check from one fixed IP?

Yes, from a static IP in the target country, but it shows only that one place. Rotating residential covers many countries.

How much traffic does a daily check use?

Keywords × locations × response size. Measure one response and multiply.

Is there a free trial?

No. The smallest purchase is 1 GB of rotating residential traffic.

Reference links

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  1. Proxy302 product facts and price list

    Product observation · Confirmed on:

    Product facts file of the site, checked 12 November 2026 against the console and the price table.

  2. Google Search Help: How Google uses your location

    Official documentation · Confirmed on:

    Read the page: Google lists four sources for the location it uses in Search, device location, Home or Work addresses saved in the Google Account, previous activity on Google, and the IP address ("From your internet address"); adding a place to the query also gives local results.

  3. Google Search Central: Managing multi-regional and multilingual sites

    Official documentation · Confirmed on:

    Read the multi-regional sites page: Google Search tries to match the searcher's language and the right locale page, and it does not vary its crawl location to find regional versions.

  4. Google Terms of Service

    Official documentation · Confirmed on:

    Read the terms effective 30 July 2026: under "Don't abuse our services" they bar using automated means to access content in violation of machine-readable instructions such as robots.txt, and bar interfering with or disrupting the services.

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