Question: I have a website for example. It is a company from Canada, but is hosted down south at the US. Anyways... I go to google.ca (pages from web) - search the keyword, and find my site first page, yet in google.ca, where i select 'pages from Canada' (there are 2 options - pages from web, or pages from canada), i am nowhere to be found. I came up with a theory that if your pages are hosted in Canada, than you will rank in 'pages from canada', and if your comany's website is not hosted in Canada, than you will not even show up in 'pages from canada', even though u are a canadian company. What do you think? am i right?
makes sense.... how else would google know you were in canada or not? they know where the site is hosted by the ip
theirs a new tool i googles webmaster tools that allows you to set a geographical target, you should try it. I never used it and don't know how well it works. My site was hosted in the us but i moved it to Canada like 6 months ago before this new feature.