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Old April 18th, 2006, 08:04 PM
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Domain extension and host country location
Hey all,

If a website with a country specific extension such as .co.uk is being hosted on a server located in a different country will that effect the results delivered by search engines?

Several UK hosting providers use servers located in Germany so does that mean people searching for pages in the UK only would never get to see the site (assuming the site is indexed and with good PR) or would the fact that the extension has a country identifyer rather than a .org, .com .net etc mean the site will be included in the UK search results?

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hey mate,,

I don't think so
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well......

Assuming that you are using a good search engine, there shouldn't be a difference in the search material that is returned.

A reasoning behind that would be that the DNS records that are in Germany would still point to a .uk domain. So when the spiders hit the site, although they are in Germany, they would index the site as a .uk

Now there are sites that allow for filtering of sites bases of where the location of the site is from. This I think would be a good question... I would guess that the site would still file under a UK filter, even though the location and IP might be out of Germany.
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Lots of the big sites have thier secondary name servers (and more) in a different country thatn their first name servers for redundancy in case of main servers failure. I can't imagine them being penalized for that as that is the whole purpose that type of redundancy is possible in the first place. So, no, it would be unwise for a search engine to penalize you based upon physical location.
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Most of the search engine consider TLD first for geolocation, and thereafter IP and link analysis. Google looks at IP address, hence I think you might observe some varriation in google.
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Most of the search engine consider TLD first for geolocation, and thereafter IP and link analysis. Google looks at IP address, hence I think you might observe some varriation in google.


From where did you hear that?

I have Hebrew .co.il sites hosting in North America- Google thinks that they are local Israeli sites. Which they are, for all intents and purposes.

Google may parse the language / charset declaration.
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