I wonder if I should host my Slovak website on a server based in Slovakia if I'm targeting a position on google.sk? Can Slovak hosting help me to climb higher on google.sk? Right now I host my Slovak site with Bluehost which has servers in the US. Also, should I register .sk or .eu domain instead of a .net that I have? I read somewhere that if you are targeting traffic locally, you should also have the site hosted locally. I read that it's good for SEO. Is this true?
Im not sure about seo, but user happiness definitely, websites that are hosted in the same country as the visitor load quicker, it may not be ALOT quicker, but at times you will notice is.
server location doenst mather much. and you stay with your .net doamin. what you could do is build backlinks from other slovakia websites... this will help you rank in google.sk