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

date posted 7th November 2007 14:19


But of course Google filters based on IP as its very difficult to fake a
UK IP.

On the other hand anyone can get a .co.uk domain - and this is why its
worthless to uk only search engines.

Google knows this and this is why having a .co.uk domain WITHOUT a UK IP
makes if far less likely to get into uk-only results.

If all you have to do is get a .co.uk domain for £5 and get into uk only
searches it would be littered with rubbish from all over the world.

Common sense, if your audience is UK the content should be served from the
UK.


John
>
> 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
>> 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.
>
> In my experience I have seen .co.uk sites hosted
> in Germany being ignored in Google UK only
> listings so believe this to be true.
>
> DNS records can be used to determine the
> geographical location of the server from which a
> site is being served and presumably this
> information is then used to help filter search
> results.
>
> HTH
>
> ColinR
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