It used to be the case that a country-specific domain (eg .com.au) will always be treated as an Australian site no matter where it's hosted. You can't even override this using webmaster tools.
For generic domains, the hosting country determined the regional preference if you hadn''t specifically set it in webmaster tools. This was correct a year or so ago, and should still hold true - but you never know. Harvey. Dan Khan wrote: > I always use google webmaster tools to set my site's location so this > should capture non-geographic server locations. > Think MSN lets you do this using their tools too. > > Cheers, > -Dan > > > 2009/12/8 Bruce Clement <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Not anything definitive, but I host off-shore and my .co.nz > <http://co.nz> domains show up in searches as New Zealand sites > while my .co.uk <http://co.uk> domains show up as British. > > As I understand it, .coms won't do the same, which is yet another > reason to always have the domain name for your target market. > > 2009/12/8 chris burgess <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > What's the current word on SEO and geographic location of > servers? Is a .com.au site which is physically hosted in NZ or > USA likely to suffer any form of penalty in search engine > listings for Australian users? > > > > -- > Bruce Clement > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > <mailto:nzphpug%[email protected]> > > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] -- Harvey Kane Phone. +649 950 4133 Mobile. +6421 811 951 Email. [email protected] -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
