Errioxa - 3:25 am on Sep 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

If you want to see a few good tests of how a local Ip can influence Google's results they can see it from here [sergioblanco.org] (Spanish) <* see note >.

Summary:

Recognized Spanish SEO has tested changing his company of hosting with Ip into USA into one with Ip into Spain.

The results for the searches in Google.es and Google.com have been very significant.

Key #1
From 35 to 11 (in google.com: #2)

key #2
From 84 to 7 (in google.com: #3)

key #3
From 65 to 10 (in google.com: #12)

key #4
From 72 to 21 (in google.com: #1)

< * moderator note: the Charter [webmasterworld.com] only allows links to sites that are
authoritative. In this case, because the content of that study is useful
for our discussion, we're making an exception to the normal policy. >

[edited by: tedster at 5:35 pm (utc) on Oct. 2, 2007]