Hosting & Domains for SEO
Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Admin
Does Google actually care where your web site is hosted? Do they care which domain extension your using? People often ask these questions and I think it’s time for some answers. You can also find further SEO tips and information within our forums where I will be working as hard as I can to keep you updated with the latest tricks of the trade.
Google and your hosting provider
Today Google is using geo-targetting more and more within its index, meaning your search engine position will be effected by the location of your web sites IP address. Some argue that this has a marginal effect, personally I think it can have a broader effect. Either way it should be taken into consideration, especially when there is a competitive market for your chosen search terms. Being a UK hosting provider we would actually recommend that all non UK websites go with hosting company’s that are local to them as this will give them a local IP to aid there SEO efforts.. Of course we would also recommend that any UK based sites host with us which will give them a Nottingham based IP.
Domain extentions and Google
I would always recommend to our customers that you purchase a geographic domain name. For example, if you are setting up a UK based web site you should purchase UK domain such as .co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk etc.
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