Does website need to host in USA

[SEOAnalysts]

Dear fellow webmasters,

I am a SEO of several websites, all the sites getting good rankings for their respecitive keywords and all these sites are hosted in USA.

Recently I have hosted my one of client's website in New Delhi, India.

This site not related to india and does not have any information regarding to india and showing only in google india search results, not even in 50 pages in google.com results.

Is google ranking sites according to server location and where the site is hosted?

Any idea about this?

Regards,
SEO Analysts,

[edited by: Woz at 10:41 am (utc) on Mar. 30, 2004]
[edit reason] No Sigs please, TOS#13 [/edit]

[tigger]

yes, it makes a big difference where the site is hosted so if your aiming the site towards the US market you would be better having it hosted there.

Also please remove your signature, as we don't allow drops

[SEOAnalysts]

Thanks for your replay.

Is it happend after florida update? or it was there before florida?

((Ok, I will not use this type of signatures from now, that was my first post and haven't look at the posting guidelines yet.))

[tigger]

it's always been the case

[DoppyNL]

Shouldn't be in issue if you ask me.
A site should be ranked according to relevance and perhaps the tld when it comes to regions.
It shouldn't matter where the server is located.

What happens if you use load balancing and the site is hosted on 6 different server all on a different continent?
Will it rank high in all those country's? not rank high at all?

[SEOAnalysts]

But it happend with my website, is on #1 page for my main keyword in google india and not in even 500 ranks in google.com search results.

[DoppyNL]

I didn't say it is the case, I said it shouldn't make a difference. This because it is completely transparent to visitors where your server is located...

how long is this site live?
what tld does the site have? .com?
What language is used on the site?
Do have have some links from other site's wich are listed reasonably?

[austtr]

Tigger..

.....if your aiming the site towards the US market you would be better having it hosted there.

Can you validate this comment in same way? It seems totally at odds with the concept of content, relevance, authority sites, links and anchor text.

Surely if this were true, then those experts who publish guidelines in these forums would start with a #1 step that reads " Arrange hosting in the country to which the site pertains".

[mfishy]

There are endless sites ranking tops for hyper-competetive terms on google.com that are hosted all over the world.

[SEOAnalysts]

DoppyNL...

My site is online from last 5 months and it is .com. and is in english.

This site has 2 incoming links from other related from the home pages and these link sites are ranking pretty good in google.com search results

[bird]

This site has 2 incoming links

And there you have the answer to your question.
It's probably just so much easier to rank for India (fewer competing sites) so that two inbound links is enough to get visible there. When competing with the masses of US sites out there, two links doesn't even put you on the map.

[tigger]

austtr

I had some sites hosted in the US that were not ranking with the regional Se's these were moved to UK hosting and with 4 weeks were ranking well, nothing was changed other than the hosting, so in my books it points to where the sites were hosted