Lee from the UK asks:
“Hi Matt, could you confirm whether the geographic location of the web host has any significant ranking factors for organic SEO?”
Recorded on April 23, 2009.
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Lee from the UK asks:
“Hi Matt, could you confirm whether the geographic location of the web host has any significant ranking factors for organic SEO?”
Recorded on April 23, 2009.
source
For clod computing it affects the hosts
My site is .pk but ranking in Saudi Arabia why??? Please reply me
It's not outdated by cloud computing. First understand what cloud computing is, it is someone else's computer. So using somone else's computer doesn't change the equation at all. Second, farther away you are the more latency there is in the connection, that's going to make for slower response times. Depending upon what you are searching for, local results may be more relevant. So in short, even in the days of cloud computing, it still matters.
Hi,
If I have a server that serves round-robin DNS from a variety of geo-locations (different country or same country) for the purpose of clustering, what would be the effect on google search results?
I think it's outdated info or it will be. Google, like Amazon has its own cloud services and offers it worldwide. They would hurt themselves. By other hand i have had very bad experiences with Located IP (failover) so definitely it is not the solution. I think time will tell but we are increasingly focused on cloud and cloud knows no frontiers or countries.
I don't think Ali. These days I think the location is still relevant for SEO. It's not outdated.
sounds outdated and irrelevant at the time of cloud computing
So then the answer is "YES" the location is relevant for SEO!
This post is from 2009. I haver serious doubts that this is still accurate. There are many companies hosting on heroku, amazon etc. I know that in webmaster tools you can choose the local.
How about CDNs? When they cache/accelerate your site the i.p address is changed, even with google pagespeed the i.p changes, so how Google knows the real i.p of the server? how that affects SEO ?
So does that mean,chaning your ip address(say U.S) when you upload youtube videos,is more likely to pull traffic from U.S?
I have my page hosting in Argentina, but I want to change to another hosting who has servers in USA.
The Domain is .com.ar
If I use Google tools or some HTML meta tags to help in location, I will still loose ranking in Argentina? I want the best ranking in Argentina, but the actual server is not good enough.
so how do we find out where the server is? ip tracking or what?
From this can we conclude that the IP address is measured, and the distance between searcher and possible result are included in the search algorithm, but the weighting relative to other factors is dynamic, and impossible for you to generalise about, hence the non committal non-answer? All else being equal (which never happens) it matters, but in reality, other factors outweigh this significantly in the vast majority of cases. Relevant content wins over everything else, as it should be.
thank you for conclusively answering the question that i have been trying to answer for the last day or two, directly from the horses mouth, thankyou.
thanks, this was helpful.
lol!, of course they are, please knee
GoogleWebmasterHelp: Do you work for Google? Are these official statements from google? Im assuming you do since your saying "we", but just wanted to verify.
How will this affect a site served up through a CDN like Akamai? The IP address would remain the same, but it would look like it's being hosted in every country. Would a Google bot from the UK see the site as a UK site and a Google bot from the US see it as a US site?
Such a subtle, yet vital consideration — thanks for the clear info!
What about servers within a country? If my client wants to target South Florida and my company's server is in California, will that make a difference as well?