[BNM] SEO and website location

[Alan Braddish]

Thanks Paul,

I subsequently read something very similar.

Alan


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[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Paul Silver
Sent: 09 December 2008 17:39
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] SEO and website location

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:20:41 -0000, "Alan Braddish" <alan at webspoke.co.uk>
said:
> Can anybody tell me if the country of origin of a web site IP address is
> still used by the likes of Google for search engine placement?
> 
> So if a web site has a UK IP address, would it tend to come up higher in
> Google's result pages for someone searching from the UK?  I'm not talking
> about using the "Pages from UK" radio button when searching.

It is if the website has a non-country related domain, so if it's a .com
then Google takes in to account the location of the IP address it's
hosted on. If you have a .co.uk it doesn't make any difference where
it's hosted.

And yes, this includes the straight results from google.co.uk, not just
the ones when you select 'Pages from the UK'.

Cheers

Paul
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