Does hosting server location affect my local google page rank
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Hi All,
This is my first (of many I would say) questions.
My clients site is in Ireland but the hosting service is in Canada. So when i use the MozBar it states that the IP is in Canada.
Will this affect my page ranking in Dublin, Ireland?
The company is a plumbing service so we would only want local Dublin customers.
Thanks so much and I hope someone can help me out.
cheers,
Aidan
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To call John Mu simply as a Google Employee is to undervalue him, as he is the Webmaster Trends Analyst in Google :).
So... knowing who he is, somehow makes even more relevant what he says.
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The hosting location shouldn't matter if you host your site using a ccTLD (Country code top-level domain). A Google Employee confirmed this a long time ago and I don't think it changed since then.
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