In the Google blog post

Megan — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:56:02 +0000

In the Google blog post about the new geotargetting feature she explicitly says that they used to look at the server location in determing the geotarget of the website.

What I'm not sure on is whether the new geotargetting feature will override other indicators. For example, if my site is hosted in the UK but I indicate that my site is not geotargetted, wilil it still use the other indicators to decide that my site is UK based?

I have not heard this before

Greensphere — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:18:41 +0000

I have not heard this before and i would be a little sceptical as to whether this is correct.

armanbarbuco wrote: “A

Bompa — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:09:39 +0000

armanbarbuco wrote:

“A site MUST be hosted at a server located in the country that you are targeting for optimal results. A website hosted in Philippines or Australia will show up in SERP’s for those respective countries but not in US. Google filters the results as per the server location. Better to move site to the host located in US if targeting local market”.

Is this statement true?
Need some insights.

Thanks

Rubbish!

Google will try to geotarget results for you, but not based on the
IP of the hosting server.

You see, the IP of the hosting server has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with
the relevance or importance of a page hosted on that server.

That's why they don't do that.

So, if you live in the Philippines, Google will try to give you pages
that are .ph or mention Philippines, IF they are relevant to your query.

Bompa

Agreed, It is not based upon

Hafsoh — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:35:21 +0000

Agreed, It is not based upon physical server location, but who owns/registered the IPs. However, if your site IP belongs to a UK network, your site would be rewarded in google.co.uk BUT I haven't noted any loss on traffic in google.com itself.

Now you can target the

Megan — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:14:22 +0000

Now you can target the geographic location of your site in webmaster tools. I asked there if checking the "Do not associate a geographic location with this site" will override any other indicators they're using (host location).

I'd also still like to know if they consider the main index at google.com to be the US site and if any sites geotargetted to other countries will have weaker rankings in that index.

It effects does not much

Digitoko — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:09:19 +0000

It effects does not much more< and also Agree with Jenny19 That's domain name is more important as a hosting.

I think it effect a little

jenny19 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:35:00 +0000

I think it effect a little bit. but the domain name is more important towards the hosting

It only has very little

MrCat — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:42:37 +0000

It only has very little effect. This is just due to the different datacenters and the update process it undertakes every once in a while.

The statement is true It is

Hafsoh — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:27:41 +0000

The statement is true
It is necessary to host your server in the same location where you want to target the visitors.

armanbarbuco, can you

Megan — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:06:53 +0000

armanbarbuco, can you provide a reference for that quote?

I've never heard of this being true but then again, I haven't heard of it not being true either. For the main/US site, that is. I think they do look at the host locations for their localized searches.

So do they consider the main engine at Google.com to be the US version and not general to all countries? That's obviously a big problem for sites hosted in other countries!!