Country of Hostings as a Google SEO factor

It is known that physical location of the server where a site is hosted is ideally should be in the same country where targeted audience is. For a Spanish site, however, national hosting would be as much as 250 Euros per MONTH which is no cheap. How important do you think it is to switch to Spanish hostings and do you think that will be effective

 

if you have an .es domain targeted for Spain people, i think you can have an US host without any problems.
If you have a .com domain targeted for Spain people and you host it in US, you might have a problem.

find the best solution and use it!

 

I do think you will have a problem with hosting


the only thing you should care is the speed your website loads when you are hosting it from a different country...

 

I am sure I am not going to have any problem if I host a .es site at a different country - the question is whether Google adds up to the value of the site which is hosted in the county it is targeted for...

 

250 euros per month? omg! And I think that even if you have an .es domain name with a host in us you will not succed. Google sees the ip of the host machine, not just the domain name.

 

Sorry to hear about such a terrible prices in Spain, I am proud to have 100% uptime VPS ( 256-512bursted ram) for 10$ per month in Lithuania ^_^
I am hosting all my websites with them and I know that there is some impact on the ranking depending on the IP, but as I try to keep up with google news in some of there video there engineer mentioned this fact and all you have to do to avoid it is geo target your website with Google Webmaster Tools.
And you can forget about the IP of the server if you geo target your websites

Hope that solves your problems.

Regards,
ORZ

 

I run one of my .co.uk domains from a host in the US and get around 90 % UK traffic, so I can't really see it as an issue.

 

It is important but not 250 Euros important.

 

Not that important. Having the local domain extension is sufficient in telling google who your target audience is.

 

It's really not much mattered where it was hosted. Just be ware about shared IP, if you get along with penalized site hosted with your site, your ip might be flagged.

 

Find a reputable host. It does not matter where it is.

 

everybody hosts in US, cheap and fast

 

I really don't think it matters. Google understands the rationale for selecting where you host - they only host in a limited number of countries despite targeting them all. Our Google servers are in Hong Kong, many thousands of km away.

 

I don't think it is problem with servers location. You can use any server location

 

Guess, that is the answer to my question! Thanks to everybody who participated. Guess, the thread is CLOSED.