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

date posted 7th November 2007 13:25

Thanks, so IP is looked at for none country specific domains. We learn
something new everyday :)

I'm guessing setting the geographic target will also work for none
country specific domains, hosted from an ip outside of your target country.

So for a uk search:

.uk domain should show up no matter where it's hosted
.com domain should show up if it's hosted in the uk
.com domain should show up if set in webmaster tools as uk site

If in doubt buy a server in every country and host from there with the
correct domain for that country ;)

Martin

On 07/11/2007 14:04, Rob Colton wrote:
> Read this.
>
> 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 and
> that of other SEO folk is such that you do need to host in the uK to get the
> 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-lin
> king-and-web.html
>
>
> On 7/11/07 13:51, "Martin Wheatley" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
>> 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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