English language site hosted in USA ranks better in South America

[martinacastro]

Something extrange for me…

I’m making SEO work for a site, and this site is better rank in google of my country(a spanish country in southamerica), than google.com in English. I don`t have reference of my country in the site, is hosted in USA, in English, without links from my country or spanish sites, and my domain info is my USA address not in my country

Any idea of why happens this? Why google makes this? It also happens with the domain of a friend.

Regards
Martín

[wheel]

Check the IP address of the site to make sure it's actually an American IP address. Because believing a site is hosted in the US isn't the same as the IP address actually showing as being in the US.

Recheck your backlinks. If it's not the IP address of the site then I'd expect it's the backlinks - and since you're in that country, I'd suspect it's something you've done - like backlink development.

The only three other things I can think of, the first two are unlikely IMO:
- domain ownership (unlikely)
- something you're doing on the site tells Google you're in that country and therefore the site is as well (i.e. they're tracking visitors, and they all seem to be coming from your country...i.e. you're own visits are causing the offside).
- google.com is far more competitive than your local serps, so it shows up higher in the local google.

[martinacastro]

Thanks Wheel, here some comments:

- The IP Number is from USA
- Most backlinks are from international sites, only few sites from english sites located in south america.
- domain ownership is USA
- I have a google account using google webmaster tools and google analytics. The account is from USA, but I did not configure the target country. I access to these accounts and domains from my country in southamerica
- SERPs in Google.com Spanish for the target KW: 1,830,000 (my position #50)
- SERPs in Google.com English for the target KW: 1,440,000 (my position #443)

Any idea?

Thanks and regards
Martin