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I understand having a local domain and hosting content in the targeted country helps increase performance in the SERPS.

Does anybody know of any good cheap hosts in Australia? I use hostgator normally, so anything with a similar interface (point and click app installs, etc) Would be great.
#australia #hosting
  • Profile picture of the author mystline
    There's actually less benefit for having a site hosted in the same country as you might think. In the Webmaster Tools section you can select where your website originates from and Google uses this for its records, not where your site is physically located.

    With cloud based hosting and companies having multiple datacenters all around the globe the actual position of your website with some of these companies is 3 places at once.

    I'm not sure if any other search engines have moved in the same direction as google yet but I they will eventually.
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  • Profile picture of the author Quentin
    Plus most hosting in Australia is not nearly as good as hostgator.

    All my Australian clients are on hostgator and do far better than there competitors many of whom are on Australian servers.

    Plus for the service and support you get with hostgator you will pay much more in Australia.

    Plus a lot who say they are OZ based just mean their business is not their servers.

    Myth busted.

    Quentin
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