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does domain name ccTLD matter for rankings?

I was using isearchfrom[dot]com to see how my website was ranking for a a target keyword in several countries. I managed to climb from 8th page all the way up to first in less than a week after adding the site to Google Search Console. I was pretty happy but iffy, so I decided to use a VPN to search the same keyword. I was actually at the bottom of 17th page on the United States.

ChatGPT says its because the TLD of my domain name is specific to a country and not something like .com or .io, so when I search from my normal IP address it will show that really high. Which kind of checks out when doing very obvious tests. When searching without a VPN Im ranking 2nd or 3rd on the first page, with any other IP Im ranking at least on 17th page.

I know almost nothing about SEO so this might be a dumb question. I have added absolutely everything I found could help with ranking higher in english speaking countries or in general but it only improved a little bit, ranking at the top of the same page.

So far I tried:

  • added json ld to all indexable pages
  • canonicals for all pages
  • hreflangs and <html lang="en"> on all pages
  • optimized the crap out of page speed insights
  • started writing articles out of desperation
  • added every accessibility attributes I could find would help (not sure if this matters for ranking)
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