Hi guys, I had a USA hosting, but decided to change server IP's to both of my websites to .es and .uk hosting companies in order to rank better in these same regional google datacenters. Thats pretty much it what you can do in order to rank better regionally right? besides from keyword optimization and general seo techniques?
a year ago I moved from many yrs US hosting to European hosting ( DE ) - substantial part of my pages are in DE - but i noticed absolutely no change in SERPS for DE pages/keywords. however I noticed an instant approx 30% increase in traffic the hour I had the server change effective - most likely due to the now missing filtering/censorship of US-content still practiced in some 40 countries. SERPS depend on SEO - i never heard that hosting country has any effect on SERPS - would make no sense since until a few years ago almost all hosting was in USA.
I think that you get more effect on SERPS if you get IBLS from content related sites. And it is less stressful than hosting migration and stuff... also i think there is a downtime in the hosting migration process that could cause google to penalize you a little. On the other hand: maybe you should wait a little bit longer to see if there are some benefits from this migration ? How long ago did you change your hosting provider ?
thanks guys, yeah i changed a month ago...im quite impatient...i guess waiting until the new pr update to get some more regional links and see what happens from there.... cheers,
All of the major search engines give a great deal of weight to geo-location in their ranking methods - even when the user does not request a country-specific search. That's the main reason why the ranking results in the various Googles around the world are different. To rank well in any particular Google or Yahoo! or MSN Live, you need your site to have a matching geo-location identity. The major search engines use two common criteria in determining the geo-location of a site: (1) the presence of a Country Code Top Level Domain Name, or for generic domain names (.com, .net, .org, .info, .biz) they use the physical location of the server that hosts the site, based on its IP address. No other factors will affect your site's geo-location setting. So if you have a Country Code Top Level Domain Name, your site's geo-location will automatically be set to that country regardless of where the site is actually hosted. If you have a generic Top Level Domain name, your site's geo-location depends on the location of the server that hosts the site. And you need to do some research beyond simply looking at the hosting company's business address. At least one UK-based hosting company has their servers located in Europe, for example, so if you need to change hosts, be sure to ask where their servers are before you make the change.
great answer man, thanks yeah i got uk2 for UK (uk ip) and sync.es for spain (spain ip) i guess i gotta wait a lil' bit more then.....