Countries and languages

AI answers are local. The same question asked from Germany and from the United States often names different brands and cites different sites. Every AmICited prompt is therefore tracked from one country, and every response, brand mention and citation it produces is stored with that country.

How the country is used#

Each prompt has a country, stored as a two-letter ISO code. The default is US (United States). When the prompt runs, the country is applied to each engine as follows:

• ChatGPT and Gemini receive the country as the request location, plus the country’s language code.
• Google AI Overview and Google AI Mode are fetched for that country’s location and language.
• Perplexity is opened in a real browser through a residential proxy in that country, with the country’s language as the browser’s language preference.
• Claude, Grok and DeepSeek are queried through their vendors’ APIs, which are not given a location. The prompt’s country is still recorded on their results, so filters work, but it does not localize their search.

Supported countries#

You can track from 139 countries. A country is supported only when both the LLM scraping service and the residential proxy network cover it, because the answer has to be collected from inside that country on every engine that supports localization. Search the country picker by name; it shows each country’s flag.

If a market you need is missing, it is because one of the two providers does not cover it yet. Contact us and tell us which one.

Language comes from the country#

You do not pick a language separately. Each country maps to one primary language, and that language is used as the locale for the query. For countries with several official languages, the most widely spoken one is used:

The locale shapes which sources an engine searches and which language it answers in. It does not translate your prompt. Write each prompt in the language your buyers in that country use: a French prompt tracked from France, a German prompt tracked from Germany. A prompt in English tracked from Germany measures what German users get when they ask in English, which is a valid but different question.

Setting the country#

• During setup. Step 2 of the setup wizard, Tracked from, sets the country for every prompt created in the wizard.
• When adding prompts. The Country picker in the Add prompts dialog applies to the whole batch. The dialog remembers your last choice.
• On an existing prompt. Edit prompt lets you change the tracking country of one prompt. New runs use the new country; earlier results keep the country they were collected from.

The country picker in Get top keywords (for your own URL or a competitor’s) also decides which country’s Google rankings are looked up.

Tracking several markets#

A prompt is unique per domain, country and text. The same prompt text can therefore be tracked in several countries at once: add the list once with Country set to United States, then again with Germany, and you get two independent prompts.

• Filter by country. The country filter at the top of the Dashboard and other pages narrows every figure to one market. Without it, figures blend all countries together.
• Tag by market if you also translate prompts, for example de, fr, uk, so you can compare markets that use different prompt texts. See tags.
• Budget per market. Each country is a separate prompt with its own runs, so tracking 50 prompts in three countries costs the same as tracking 150 prompts. See run frequency.

For separate country sites on different domains (acme.de, acme.fr), add each as its own domain instead, so each one is matched against its own brand name and domain.

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