Google search - .com or .co.uk

[Bill Deakin]

Thanks Fisicx, that totally makes sense...

[Birmingham]

By Daniel do you mean me?

If so, do you have any evidence from the horses mouth to say that any search engine bases it's rankings on where websites are hosted?

Very interesting if you can provide some trusted sources

Originally Posted by peterjhale

Daniel

Getting it hosted in the UK is really going to help you.

[squalid]

how about this from Vanessa Fox who works at google -

For .com domains, we rely on the location of the IP address. My best
suggestions (although either may be difficult) would be to either
switch the server back to a UK-based IP or move your site to a .co.uk
domain (and redirect the .com to it).

[Bill Deakin]

Would a .org.uk be as good as .co.uk for this?

Bill

[TWD-Tony]

Yes Bill - any domain extension that indicates the target audience will be fine

Birmingham - you have posted in another thread "ask me any SEO question..." and yet you did not know this well known fact - that search engines use a servers physical location (via geo-ip location) to determine relevance???????
This has been known for a long time and the SE's admit to it openly... Without it the search engines could not possibly know the relevance of any .com / .net / .org etc...
The current arguement is IF having UK hosting increases your position in the SERPS for UK only searches over your competitors using non-uk hosting. The evidence seems to state that IT DOES - so you are better with a .uk domain on a UK server if you are targeting UK customers

[timd1230]

I started off with a .com - hosted in the USA - it was cheap but I did not know why I did not rank well in the uk - I now know the reasons and have .co.uk site and webhosting. If I had realised this 12 monts ago I would have been a long way ahead of where I am now - Still the site and rankings are starting to climb now

Tim

[Birmingham]

Originally Posted by squalid

how about this from Vanessa Fox who works at google -

For .com domains, we rely on the location of the IP address. My best
suggestions (although either may be difficult) would be to either
switch the server back to a UK-based IP or move your site to a .co.uk
domain (and redirect the .com to it).

Excellent quote, do you have a source document? like a google-hosted webpage or similar?

Originally Posted by TWD-Tony

Birmingham - you have posted in another thread "ask me any SEO question..." and yet you did not know this well known fact.

It may be well known to you but I'm still looking for proof. Do you think I should never have offered such help in the other forum? Do you think my help so far has been of a poor quality?

[squalid]

Excellent quote, do you have a source document? like a google-hosted webpage or similar?

why do you think i just made it up ? a quick google search would probably find it.

[Birmingham]

Originally Posted by squalid

why do you think i just made it up ? a quick google search would probably find it.

a google search for that quote returns only one listing - a page from webmasterworld - maybe they made it up? i can't access it anyway without registering with them, and google hasnt cached the page.

[squalid]

probably everyone made it up to try and fool you - but they picked the wrong man to try and fool