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I own a ecommerce site that is geared towards sales in the USA. The problem I am having is that I am doing extemely well in serps in popular search engines but they are all out of country seach engines like .de, .ca, etc....
However in the USA my rankings are nowhere to be found. I am not sure if its because my site is less than 10 months old and there may be some kind of filter or something, I am not sure.
But why is it that I am doing so well with these other engines and NOT the US engines the .com's.
Is it possible where your site is hosted can affect the serps? Has anybody every had this problem? Did you find a solution?
Here is the funny thing about it all. My site is hosted in the US, however a programmer was working on my site and asked me if my site was hosted in Dutchland which is .de.
The amazing thing about that is my rankings on the .de are number 1 for all my major keywords, but its not helping me at all with sales because I do not sell to other countries.
I need help as to figure out what may be going on with this.
I need to get my ranking up in the US .com markets or my business is lost.
Any advice on this subject would be truly appreciated.
Thanks!
However, as far as I can tell, it's only a small part of the puzzle. I host in Canada but my clients are in the US - and we've been able to rank. Which begs the troubling question how much better we'd do if I moved hosting.
Personally, I find this a very poor assumption on Google's part. I'm a prime example - why an American company would do poorer in the SE's just because they do business with me in Canada is beyond me. It makes no difference to the consumer.
I then got a panic phone call asking why they had dropped out of the UK search engines.
After they moved back to a server located in the UK their rankings came back almost overnight.
So... yes it does matter.
Your site may indeed be located in New York, but the IP address it's using is registered to a German company, and all of the similar IP addresses belong to Germany or another foreign country.
Search engines use the registration of the IP address block to determine the physical location of the site (it's called geolocation), so I would say that's definitely the problem. The only likely solution is to change hosts.
