does site location matter?

hey guys
iu have an english site
but my hosting is in netherlands
will it effect my site ranks in google?
or it doesn't really matter where the server with my site is located?

i target english speaking people. us/uk and so on

thx

 

no it will not effect but yes GEO Domain is effected in Google if you have .nl domain name then it will give Good result in google.nl compare to Google.com

 

I am cent percent agree with James....server location does not effected your page rank but domain location does. For example if you have a site which domain belongs to India (xyz.co.in) than you can easy target your site and keywords in India but if you want to target this site in uk and us than it is very tough task because Google give the priority to the local domain site.

 

I do agree with James.

Solution 1: Select country related domain like .com .uk .co.au etc
Solution 2: If you have already running website then Set Geo location to your website in Google webmaster tool.

 

As per google algorithm, it does affect your site rankings.

 

Ignore all of these idiots they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.

Here are 2 videos on the subject from someone that does know what they are talking about

[video=youtube;hXt23AXlJJU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXt23AXlJJU[/video]

[video=youtube;keIzr3eWK8I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keIzr3eWK8I[/video]

 

Always go with a .com and .net if you have the option and then buy the countries domain... even .org or .info

 

I think Matt Video is sufficient for your answer. now thread should be closed

 

It matters a lot. As Matt said Google algo consider all things i.e. country specific domain, hosting server's IP etc. For example, .uk domain will not rank higher is google.co.in except specific query.