google.ca

[brentos18]

Does anyone know what I would have to do to make sure that my website also gets included in the Canadian index of google since we are a Canadian company. We would like people that search pages from canada to find us as well

[mitchofoz]

i think it has to do with the physical geographical location of your server. we are also a canadian company but our listing disapeared from google.ca after i moved our servers from a local isp in canada to a large telco in the united states.

if canadian traffic is really important to you ("only pages from canada" feature), i suggest you host company.com in the united states and a different box company.ca at a provider in canada.

[Macguru]

Hi brentos18,

Welcome to the board.

mitchofoz is absolutely right. Hosting your site in Canada (not from a Canadian reseller of foreign hosting....) is the best way to make this happend. Some Google representative also said the TLD (.ca .fr or .com) weighs in.

Most sites I care for are .com hosted in Canada and they all show uo in the list after de local filter is applied.

Make sure the server your site is hosted on is in Canada.

[brentos18]

Thanks alot for the help. Our site is hosted by a company from Canada but for all i know there server is somewhere else. And I don't think it helps that we have a .com address but thanks for the help all the same.

Oh and I did a trace root an the hostname and the problem is even though I know the host is strictly candian the last few trace root hps have blank locations and the last location that is found is in the US

[heini]

Brentos, you might try to change to Canadian nameservers. I think that could help, not sure though.