Hosting Question- Location

I believe it does, and that US hosting may be better for rankings on google.com.

This is among the things that Matt Cutts says on the subject (only 90 seconds of it!).

i've never heard of that before. your ip address can make a difference though. i am assuming you are purchasing shared hosting?

As you watched the video, you hear Matt say that the server location is a factor but it does not mean that if you are using lets say a EU server then you website cannot rank in the USA.

Again remember, IP is one of the factors, but if Google is trying to index your entire sites, they are obviously going to go through your content and everything you have on your website. When they do that, if they realize that it is mostly suited for US users then you website will show up in the rankings for US users.

Hosting is like $9 a month.

Are you even being serious?

I've done intl seo jobs for clients and I have always seen our sites get indexed when they are on servers in the country of origin, always...

To be honest even in my own experiences i never seem issues with IPconfigurations no matter were the server is based its more a tecnicial question withinn IT deployment as most web servers are Non static Ip configurated to network all websites they host.

Google uses over 200 factors,such as how fast a page loads in speed to SEO on and off site (H1 H2 tags, Density of keywords withinn the article ect,)

Panda was introduced to stop the backlink software and higher black hat gaming on their search crietra,If you are concerned about the pageload in other countries you can try the tests out at http:// tools.pingdom.com/ to see how the speed determines from other countries,

I beleive it would be impossble to refer by Ip as most web providers use the same DNS connections so if your Ip was for example 192.289.228.33 its a block connections of many subnet ip addresses static or DNS assigned by the servers which could be a range of different website propergated by domain so Google uses the factors such as
dupliacte content- Having for example www.mysite.com/comevisituspart1 and www.mysite.com/comevisitus2 would be seen as duplicate content in the eyes of google panda as it would be confusing as hell to a search engine,

also anchor texts with penguin is googles nemines at present in determining factors for ranking, Enter Google Penguin, which effectively put an end for SEOs using 'exact match' anchor text as their strategy. It just simply doesn't work anymore. This was such a strong factor, many professional SEOs are still using this strategy to their own detriment. Not only does it no longer work, building hundreds of 'exact match' links to a web site actually prevents it from ranking for that


I just been reading this book on my kindle from a ex Google professional worker on SEO and he states the following above its only when Google uses it spam technology changes. If you stick to the things i mentioned in this post i dont see how Ip is a factor unless of course its on a blacklisted webhost you are hosting from,

Hope that helps
andy

Just register a domain that reflects the country code you wish to target, and set your geographical preference to the same country.


As I said, I've never experienced issues with lower rankings due to server location.