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

date posted 7th November 2007 13:12

Read this.=20

You pay your money and take your chance. From readin this it would seem a
.co.uk address is good enough to give you UK rankings. But my experience an=
d
that of other SEO folk is such that you do need to host in the uK to get th=
e
best rankings from UK searches. However, I would also say that it might
actually give you better rankings if you can afford a dedicated foreign
based server over a virtual UK based one. Shared IP addresses alo look to
get worse listings (which is discriminatory I think)

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/08/server-location-cross-li=
n
king-and-web.html


On 7/11/07 13:51, "Martin Wheatley" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

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> I can't find any indication on google that it uses IP addresses, only
> the country specific domain.
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> You can always set the geographic target in the google webmaster tools.
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> 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.
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>> We worked on a large multi-country/language website for several years an=
d 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).
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>> I found a discussion about location you might like to read.
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>> http://blog.seoptimise.com/2007/01/how-quickly-does-google-find-new-serv=
er.h
>> tml
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>> On 7/11/07 12:17, "Dominic Marsat" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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>>> A client has just been told that hosting a .co.uk domain on a server lo=
cated
>>> outside the UK is bad news (by a reputable SEO company). Is this correc=
t? I
>>> find this really hard to believe. Surely if the top level domain is cor=
rect
>>> the location of the server shouldn=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=C5=A1t matter.
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>>> Thanks in advance, Dominic
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