Use foreign domain extension and local hosting in target country for max SEO?

[mikepimco]

Does anyone know about how to plan a site for maximum SEO if it is targeted at a forgein country and written in that country's native language?

For example, if I am targeting France and I have a site written in French....should I register the domain with a .fr extension and find a hosting company in France to maximize SEO or can a site written in french that is a .com, .net or .org and is hosted here in the US compete just as well?

[McBrett]

@MikePMCO

Very advanced question. Local hosting is a big deal right now, I've actually seen 50% - 70% increases in local traffic just because of local hosting. It doesn't just help with Google, it helps with a lot of the local search engines too.

If you are using a targeting France I would do this:

www.yoursite.fr

Local site hosting. Also, I would have a version of your site in English and in French. (Their will be a lot of people searching in English even though you're targeting the country of France.)

Let us at the Warrior Forum know how it works out.

[Hardi Wijaya]

It doesn't just help with Google, it helps with a lot of the local search engines too.

Why G gets very interested in local search now?

It's due to mismanagement in the past. It's too ambitious. It over-expanded and forgot the path that it left behind... the niche of money.


Hardi

[nikolaaa]

Originally Posted by mikepimco

Does anyone know about how to plan a site for maximum SEO if it is targeted at a forgein country and written in that country's native language?

For example, if I am targeting France and I have a site written in French....should I register the domain with a .fr extension and find a hosting company in France to maximize SEO or can a site written in french that is a .com, .net or .org and is hosted here in the US compete just as well?

Yes, you should use domain,hosting,text and backlinks from local country.