Does the location of hosting matter for SEO ?

Hi guys,

I have this query which has been in my mind for the past few days. Does the geographical location of your hosting affect the websites in terms of SEO ? Fyi, I am currently using hosting located in my country ( Malaysia ), where the service has been great but am thinking of using other hosting services in countries where I plan to do my affiliate marketing. ( UK, US )

Thank you.

 

Yes it does matter. If you want to rank on google.com, you'll want a US host. If you want to rank on google.co.uk, you'll want a uk-based host.

I'm not saying you can't rank on .com if you host outside of the US, but Google highly prefers sites that are within the country of the TLD search.

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If you target US audience then you better use US host because the speed is better.

Plus the IP will influence the SEO ranking also.

Use a dedicated IP will help rank better in SEO.

 

It affects SERPs for targeted audience in your hosts country

 

Yes it affects your SERPs and if you want to be very specific to location get country TLD as well

 

Yes, it does matter but not that much, as i have hosted one of my Canadian based site on US based server, site is well ranked and producing handy sales.

 

thanks guys ... learnt a bit ...

 

location will affect serps if you are geo targeted

 

The location of hosting matters somewhat but I don't think that it will significantly effect your ranking in search engines. If you have thousands of websites linking to you and unique content then you are going to get indexed regardless of where your website's resolving to.

 

if your market in US or UK...
may be you can try hosting with data center in washington, texas or seattle...