I have been informed by some that if you host your UK domain within the USA, it can alter search engine results… Is this true? If no information is entered in Google Webmaster Tools, Google will continue to make geographic associations largely based on the top-level domain (e.g. .co.uk or .ca) and the IP address of the web server from which the context was served.
What about if you have a .co.uk domain and a USA IP address? Will I get better rankings if it is all UK based?
Yes, you will get better ranking in UK searches if the hosting is in the UK. Of course you have to weigh up the extra cost of hosting in the UK to determine whether or not you think it would be worth it.
Will .co.uk domain through USA hosting decrease UK search engine rankings?
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Yes, you will get better ranking in UK searches if the hosting is in the UK. Of course you have to weigh up the extra cost of hosting in the UK to determine whether or not you think it would be worth it.
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It makes no real difference. People with a .co.uk domain generally target audiances within the UK.
Google indexes pages on content and usefulness, not where they are hosted or what country they are hosted in.
All my sites have, com..co.uk. .net .biz and .info domains ( i bought them all ). The hosting is on a US based company and the search results are well in the top of google search, are indexed every hour from all the leading search engines and have a very reasonable turn over of traffic considering they are less than 6 months old.
Its more important to have a host thats fast and reliable, more than it is to have a host from a country you are not actually in.
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It should not matter.
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