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

date posted 7th November 2007 14:08

Hi Dominic,

At 12:16 +0000 7/11/07, Dominic Marsat wrote:
>A client has just been told that hosting a .co.uk domain on a server locate=
d
>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=92t matter.

In my experience I have seen .co.uk sites hosted=20
in Germany being ignored in Google UK only=20
listings so believe this to be true.

DNS records can be used to determine the=20
geographical location of the server from which a=20
site is being served and presumably this=20
information is then used to help filter search=20
results.

HTH

ColinR
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