Can the geographic location of a web server affect SEO?
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Uploaded by GoogleWebmasterHelp on Jun 25, 2009
Lee from the UK asks:
"Hi Matt, could you confirm whether the geographic location of the web host has any significant ranking factors for organic SEO?"
Recorded on April 23, 2009.
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I love the white shirt, white background and whiteboard. Very colorful!
But on a serious note, great vid as always, thanks Matt!
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This goes to show that Google reaches out to people.
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From this can we conclude that the IP address is measured, and the distance between searcher and possible result are included in the search algorithm, but the weighting relative to other factors is dynamic, and impossible for you to generalise about, hence the non committal non-answer? All else being equal (which never happens) it matters, but in reality, other factors outweigh this significantly in the vast majority of cases. Relevant content wins over everything else, as it should be.
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thank you for conclusively answering the question that i have been trying to answer for the last day or two, directly from the horses mouth, thankyou.
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webtoastie.co.uk/hosting-locat
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The server's IP is completely irrelevant for geographic TLD/ccTLDs.
Can you SEO's please stop bleating incorrect information.
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thanks, this was helpful.
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well amazon.de is hosted in dublin along with .uk and fr
So are they doing it wrong then? ditto for anybody using amazon ec2 elastic cloud.
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lol!, of course they are, please knee
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GoogleWebmasterHelp: Do you work for Google? Are these official statements from google? Im assuming you do since your saying "we", but just wanted to verify.
macscr 2 years ago
Hi macscr, Yes, this is an official Google channel. You can find a link to us from Google Webmaster Central.
GoogleWebmasterHelp 2 years ago 2