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

by mikepimco
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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?
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author nikolaaa
    Originally Posted by mikepimco View Post

    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.
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