Previously if you wanted to appear in the country search results (i.e. “pages from Singapore”), your website either had to be hosted locally or your domain name must end with a “.sg” - reasons why larrylim.net had always been excluded. Google explains in its FAQ: However, this seems to have changed because my website now appears in Singapore search results although I still do not meet Google’s local IP address and TLD requirements: My guess is that in addition to the criteria above, Google could also now be considering the… Unfortunately, there’s no way to confirm this and it’s merely a personal observation for now.
“…When searching for pages from a specific country, keep in mind that our crawlers identify the country that corresponds to a site by factors such as the physical location at which the site is hosted, the site’s IP address, and its domain restrict.”
a) use of “Singapore” and related terms (e.g. S$ and +65) in my webpages.
b) use of “Singapore” in anchor text (a.k.a. link labels).
c) mostly Singapore visitors (tracked by IP) I receive.