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

date posted 7th November 2007 13:00

I can't find any indication on google that it uses IP addresses, only
the country specific domain.

You can always set the geographic target in the google webmaster tools.

On 07/11/2007 13:32, Rob Colton wrote:
> It is true to say that various search engines do indeed look at server
> location and also the DNS that looks after the domain's location. Google for
> instance has a radioi button saying "Pages from the UK" and will show
> results for that country only based on IP address.
>
> We worked on a large multi-country/language website for several years and my
> ears bleed from the SEO assigned to the job telling us we should have
> servers in every country we were represented in over and over again. The
> client was too tight to do it though and getting domains and servers in
> other countries and managing them was a bit onerous. (14 languages and
> something like 20 countries).
>
> I found a discussion about location you might like to read.
>
> http://blog.seoptimise.com/2007/01/how-quickly-does-google-find-new-server.h
> tml
>
>
> On 7/11/07 12:17, "Dominic Marsat" [EMAIL REMOVED] 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
>>
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