Hosting and SEO

Sander k

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If you aim on visitors from the US with your website, you should host it in the US. Google also looks at that, so you should do it right from a SEO point of view. Don't host your website in China if you want visitors from the US.
 

Goku

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If you are from China, then do you mean that the person should get a proxy and host the Website in the US? And if yes, won't Google pick up on proxy addresses?
 

wifitoplist

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If you want to receive your visits from US, Then buy any US Based hosting which allows you to list your site in google.
 

PeaceSigns

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I think your domain matters more than your hosting. A lot of people will host their sites in the US, because that's where the majority of data centers are in the world.

If you buying hosting from 1and1 or hostgator or any other big hosting company, you're putting your data in the US. So I think Google knows people don't host locally. Whereas with your domain, you may elect to buy a domain with your local country (so .nl, .de, etc.).
 

nduwib

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I think the domain matters more too. But I have to ask one dumb question, if your hosting server is in China but you target at US visitors, wouldn't your website load slower?
 

pinoydepression

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nduwib said:
I think the domain matters more too. But I have to ask one dumb question, if your hosting server is in China but you target at US visitors, wouldn't your website load slower?

No it's nothing to do which hosting is coming from. The important thing is whether your hosting is came from the important thing is the hosting should be reliable. And yes the domain is more important than hosting, but if you web page is too slow then you have a problem.
 

PeaceSigns

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I think the domain matters more too. But I have to ask one dumb question, if your hosting server is in China but you target at US visitors, wouldn't your website load slower?
Possibly - ideally, you want to host your site as close as possible to your target audience to increase network latency or in laymans terms - the speed they connect to the site.
 

mailbox_bomber

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I live in the US and this is just my own impression, but I think I share it with others here. .com just looks more professional than .us. Sort of a second after .com.
 

NullPHP

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Sander k said:
If you aim on visitors from the US with your website, you should host it in the US. Google also looks at that, so you should do it right from a SEO point of view. Don't host your website in China if you want visitors from the US.

Thank for this information !
 

Siam Tonsing

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An Informative thread it is. after reading this thread, I see that if we want more visitor for our website, the important thing is to have a good SEO plugin from my point of view. And one more thing i got to ask is that will the .com/.net/.us etc make any difference in getting more traffic?
 

maxy420

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Siam Tonsing said:
An Informative thread it is. after reading this thread, I see that if we want more visitor for our website, the important thing is to have a good SEO plugin from my point of view. And one more thing i got to ask is that will the .com/.net/.us etc make any difference in getting more traffic?

What are some good SEO plugins? :spiteful:
 

ogah

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Peter said:
Where is the best server location if I want visitors from all over the world?
use server from all over the world location lol

seo is about the content, not server or server location.
if server location in china but they use IP from US how we or google know the server location in china?

but server performance will indirectly impact the seo.
if you have bad server performance, google bot or other bot will hard to crawl you site and your site will hard to indexed by them.

so server performance is the metters not server location
 

Genesis

Administrator
Staff member
I disagree. Some areas have better servers than other areas of the world, and also reach much further because of their superiority in quality and price. So those countries with the servers that are the most popular would probably have a wider reach. And it would be important from a SEO point of view to choose the right server. Also the quality of the users of that server would be equally important. Google may do something with one's page ranking if one is found in the company of people who break the rules.

I'm almost certain the US and the UK must have some of the servers that reach the furthest from a global point of view. Also, one will find that their servers may be in other countries as well. They reach globally far and wide.
 

ogah

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Genesis said:
Some areas have better servers than other areas of the world, and also reach much further because of their superiority in quality and price. So those countries with the servers that are the most popular would probably have a wider reach. And it would be important from a SEO point of view to choose the right server.
the point of this words is still server performance
so the reason of choosing server location because they have better server.
 

Genesis

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Staff member
So why would people from Poland for example choose hosting in the UK ? Agreed, if people choose the better quality servers there is a great chance Google will be more favourably inclined when it decides on page ranking. As usually those better quality servers also demand higher quality sharing of the servers as they have a higher set of rules. HOWEVER, if my Website was on a really great quality server that it is located in Latvia for example, Google would look at it differently (less favourably) than if my Website was located on a slightly lesser quality server in England. I've picked up on that Google has different rules for different countries due to the quality of the people from that country's general use of the Internet and that that could have a definite impact on the page ranking of that Website. So for me country does make a difference when it gets to SEO.
 

ogah

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how if you have 2 great quality server, 1 server located in China but use US IP and other 1 located in US but use Chines IP?