Comments on: Does the Fact that Your Site is Hosted in a Different Country Affect Your Search Engine Rankings? http://ask.enquiro.com/2007/does-the-fact-that-your-site-is-hosted-in-a-different-country-affect-your-search-engine-rankings/ Online Marketing Articles Focusing on the B2B Space Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:52:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Arnold http://ask.enquiro.com/2007/does-the-fact-that-your-site-is-hosted-in-a-different-country-affect-your-search-engine-rankings/#comment-1051 Arnold Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:27:19 +0000 http://ask.enquiro.com/2007/does-the-fact-that-your-site-is-hosted-in-a-different-country-affect-your-search-engine-rankings/#comment-1051 The effect can be quite staggeringly massive. I was hosting in America for the lower prices but moved to UK hosting as I'd read a similar post to this one several years back. Traffic went up THIRTY fold within about 2 or 3 weeks. Funnily enough, I now find myself in the position of wanting American traffic and looking for an American host for a couple of sites since, of course, the google webmasters tool only works for google ie I'm currently losing the benefit of yahoo, msn, etc. The effect can be quite staggeringly massive. I was hosting in America for the lower prices but moved to UK hosting as I’d read a similar post to this one several years back. Traffic went up THIRTY fold within about 2 or 3 weeks.

Funnily enough, I now find myself in the position of wanting American traffic and looking for an American host for a couple of sites since, of course, the google webmasters tool only works for google ie I’m currently losing the benefit of yahoo, msn, etc.

]]> By: SEO Tipster http://ask.enquiro.com/2007/does-the-fact-that-your-site-is-hosted-in-a-different-country-affect-your-search-engine-rankings/#comment-943 SEO Tipster Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:20:32 +0000 http://ask.enquiro.com/2007/does-the-fact-that-your-site-is-hosted-in-a-different-country-affect-your-search-engine-rankings/#comment-943 I can say from personal experience that it is absolutely necessary to host the site in the same country that you are targeting. I had a similar situation between the UK and USA and saw the rankings go way up when I moved to the hosting to my targeted country in the USA. I can say from personal experience that it is absolutely necessary to host the site in the same country that you are targeting. I had a similar situation between the UK and USA and saw the rankings go way up when I moved to the hosting to my targeted country in the USA.

]]> By: Jody Nimetz http://ask.enquiro.com/2007/does-the-fact-that-your-site-is-hosted-in-a-different-country-affect-your-search-engine-rankings/#comment-722 Jody Nimetz Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:53:19 +0000 http://ask.enquiro.com/2007/does-the-fact-that-your-site-is-hosted-in-a-different-country-affect-your-search-engine-rankings/#comment-722 Hi Marjolein, Thanks for stopping by. While we're not sure of the exact impact that your switching of hosting companies will have, you may notice some ranking fluctuations in say Google.com, or you may not notice any changes at all. If anything , you may see an increase in rankings in the Netherlands. There are numerous factors that come into play... ie. how well your site is optimized, linking structures, site architecture etc. I would suspect that in the future, the search engines will make an attempt to serve up the most relevant content regardless of where the website is located geographically. Hi Marjolein,

Thanks for stopping by. While we’re not sure of the exact impact that your switching of hosting companies will have, you may notice some ranking fluctuations in say Google.com, or you may not notice any changes at all. If anything , you may see an increase in rankings in the Netherlands. There are numerous factors that come into play… ie. how well your site is optimized, linking structures, site architecture etc.
I would suspect that in the future, the search engines will make an attempt to serve up the most relevant content regardless of where the website is located geographically.

]]> By: Marjolein Katsma http://ask.enquiro.com/2007/does-the-fact-that-your-site-is-hosted-in-a-different-country-affect-your-search-engine-rankings/#comment-716 Marjolein Katsma Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:48:05 +0000 http://ask.enquiro.com/2007/does-the-fact-that-your-site-is-hosted-in-a-different-country-affect-your-search-engine-rankings/#comment-716 If you really *want* to rank in a specific country, interesting advice. (And no, teh SEs have got it wrong if they think that the location where a site is hosted says anything about where a business is located - quite often that is not the case at all.) But what if you do *not* want to rank in any specific country but are targeting a truly international audience? I'm currently in the process of moving my sites (all internationally-targeted) to a new host - in the Netherlands, from one in the US. What impact - if any - would that have on my rankings, and why? If you really *want* to rank in a specific country, interesting advice. (And no, teh SEs have got it wrong if they think that the location where a site is hosted says anything about where a business is located - quite often that is not the case at all.)

But what if you do *not* want to rank in any specific country but are targeting a truly international audience?

I’m currently in the process of moving my sites (all internationally-targeted) to a new host - in the Netherlands, from one in the US. What impact - if any - would that have on my rankings, and why?

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