Will my geographical location play big role in SEO?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by haasan, Mar 2, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hi all,

    I live in India and I do some SEO stuffs to my couple of US clients. Here is my question.

    Recently I read an article stating that Google search results will also depend on the geographical location of where the content was created. So if that is true, should I use some US proxy ips to get effective SEO results to my US clients?

    Will appreciate some useful discussions/shares from your own experience. Pls do not throw your silly assumptions just to increase your post count.

    Cheers
    haasan
     
    haasan, Mar 2, 2010 IP
  2. asghar.paracha

    asghar.paracha Well-Known Member

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    I m not sure about the geographic region issue but if u use a us ip for content so Google will catch it and u will be in trouble so dont use a different proxy
     
    asghar.paracha, Mar 2, 2010 IP
  3. magda

    magda Notable Member

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    Well, obviously this is a silly assumption to raise my meagre teeny tiny post-count, but here goes.
    Google uses a number of clues to establish the appropriate relevant geographical location of a site - the main one will be your setting in WebMaster Tools - if you tell Google where your site's audience is, it will take a lot of contradictory messages for it to disbelieve you.
    In the absence of that the main clue it uses is - does the site have a country specific tld, where is it hosted; and what is the country tld and/or recognised geographic target of the sites that backlink.
    So - what you do in India could only skew the results for the USA site if you are either getting backlinks from loads of Indian sites, or hosting it in India
     
    magda, Mar 2, 2010 IP
  4. seo555

    seo555 Peon

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    i'm agree with you geographic region issue in ranking and traffic i'm experience for that
     
    seo555, Mar 2, 2010 IP