Re: FN-FORUM: Hosting .co.uk in another country

date posted 7th November 2007 11:36

On 07/11/2007 12:18, Dominic Marsat wrote:
> A client has just been told that hosting a .co.uk domain on a server located
> outside the UK is bad news (by a reputable SEO company). Is this correct? I
> find this really hard to believe. Surely if the top level domain is correct
> the location of the server shouldn’t matter.
>
> Thanks in advance, Dominic
>

It's only bad in terms of response time, I'd expect a .co.uk domain to
respond quicker due to less latency if I'm in the UK.

I can't think of any search engine that would be silly enough to
disregard a site due it's location not matching a known UK allocated IP,
the reputable SEO company can't be that good if they think that actually
happens.

Martin