[BNM] SEO - UK or US Servers?

[Ali]

thanks josh, I too shall wait to be proved wrong but it's the first I have heard of the physical location being a factor.

the .co.uk is currently parked on top of the .com with a 302 in place but is nowhere to be seen in google.co.uk

Ali

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  From: Josh Russell 
  To: Brighton New Media 
  Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 1:37 PM
  Subject: Re: [BNM] SEO - UK or US Servers?


  i doubt that the actual physical location makes any difference at
  all... that would just be silly. it would mean very annoying problems
  for non-us/uk companies.

  but, the tld does make a difference, so you should probably run the
  .co.uk as well... and either have a site there specifically for the uk
  market or do a htaccess redirect.

  of course now i'll just sit here and wait for nick wilsdon to tell me
  i'm wrong :)


  josh




  On 3/13/06, Ali <ali at nubz.com> wrote:
  > Hi SEO folk
  >
  > I host a site for a client on a server in the US - we moved his large site there from the UK to take advantage of better bandwidth and server specs and also to account for the fact that his business was now trading with the american market. He changed the main domain on his site to .com from .co.uk and has subsequently lost his google.co.uk listings for the .co.uk domain - I posted about the use of 301 vs 302 with regard to this.
  >
  > Now his SEO people are telling him, in order to get listed on google.co.uk again, to move the site back to a UK server whilst retaining the .com comain. Does this exercise have merit? Does the location of the server have an impact on the localisation of listings? The business and the domains are registered to a UK address.
  >
  > Any advice welcome!
  >
  > BTW this is not a site I am working on merely hosting on one of my reseller accounts but as I am being asked to migrate the site again I thought I ought to check with you guys first whether this is a waste of my time and his money!
  >
  > Ali
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