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Jamie_Carter

chunter wrote: »

http://moz.com/community/q/does-google-take-into-account-the-place-where-the-server-is-hosted-to-rank-the-pages

"Geolocation of hosting server makes absolutely no difference to SEO rankings. "

Seems you can fiddle with Google Webmaster Tools and href tags to supercede the physical location of the server.

It does seem to be a goods selling point for uk hosts, targeting naive web designers...

It does still make a difference if you know what you are doing.

The reason I changed to a UK server was because 1&1 were very expensive in comparison, and their customer service was terrible.

When you can get better service for a fraction of the price, then that is the good selling point. The minimal rankings difference was lower down on my list when I switched.

Xde

Jamie_Carter wrote: »

It does still make a difference if you know what you are doing.

The reason I changed to a UK server was because 1&1 were very expensive in comparison, and their customer service was terrible.

When you can get better service for a fraction of the price, then that is the good selling point. The minimal rankings difference was lower down on my list when I switched.

Wrong again.

Search engines invoke no penalties based on your domain name/located of host.

For example, you DO realise that tv is the ccTLD for Tuvalu - I highly doubt many multi-million dollar companies host their site in said country!

It makes ZERO difference, as pointed out by chunter.

Care to state your experience, web qualifications or source, James? Thought not...

cyberspacing

The correct answer is that it makes a difference what your site's I P address is. Google needs more than one signal to determine the location of your site. The reason for this is that Google Search is a robot, not a human. And robots are stupid at least for now, it will change in the future. So they need multiple signals to understand things. It's the same as with dog training for example. In many cases the animal needs a number of different instructions that teach the dog the same thing and then it can be learned. Call it brainwashing of a robot or whatever you like. Currently the data centre location of the web hosting provider is seen by Google as the most important GEO signal, believe it or not. See also the site weloveourhost.

Jamie_Carter

cyberspacing wrote: »

The correct answer is that it makes a difference what your site's I P address is. Google needs more than one signal to determine the location of your site. The reason for this is that Google Search is a robot, not a human. And robots are stupid at least for now, it will change in the future. So they need multiple signals to understand things. It's the same as with dog training for example. In many cases the animal needs a number of different instructions that teach the dog the same thing and then it can be learned. Call it brainwashing of a robot or whatever you like. Currently the data centre location of the web hosting provider is seen by Google as the most important GEO signal, believe it or not. See also the site weloveourhost.

Thankyou :T:T