Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : SEO / SEM Discussions : IP Location

[GaryPilot]

My server is in Tampa Florida, but some sources say the IP is in the UK where the home office of the hosting company is.

Does that make any difference for SEO or anything else?

[cyclonboy]

i think there is no difference.
i have a site hosting on Singapore server, but the hosting company is in Indonesia. My IP detected as Singapore IP Addrs.

Sorry for akward English.

[Feydakin]

If you want to make sure that you aren't accidentally redirected by local search you can go in to Google Webmaster Tools and select the region that your company / website is based in.. In your case it might make sense to go in and specify the US..

[AmyWilliams]

Try doing a tracert to make sure

[MrCat]

A slight or no difference at all with regards to ranking in different Google data centers.

[JRSEOMarketing]

Google does this assessement by your TLD, not your IP Address.

IP Addresses have nearly 0%impact on SEO now a days. If it was more than 2% i'd be amazed after 12 years of SEM/SEO experience.

Originally Posted by Feydakin

If you want to make sure that you aren't accidentally redirected by local search you can go in to Google Webmaster Tools and select the region that your company / website is based in.. In your case it might make sense to go in and specify the US..

[w3bmaster]

Well location counts in the geographical ranking

Regards

[MrCat]

Originally Posted by w3bmaster

Well location counts in the geographical ranking

Regards

Which is explained by the different data centers that Goggle has - but there is no real or big impact due to your IP address

[Kalin4y]

its not affect over the seo process

[Contentdude]

It used to affect the indexing but no more. Google have become extremely cunning these days changing tac often. You would be wiser to follow whats going on with their algorithm's.

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[elitewebs]

No difference !!

[Melnel]

Google does use the IP address of your server as one of its factors in determining if your site is located in a particular geographical location and that in turn does markedly affect your sites rankings in that location.

You can check it out easily enough - just enter the same search term in several different Google domains (google.co.uk, google.com, google.cn etc) and look at the different results that appear.

Your TLD is also used in determining the location of your site and you can use Google webmaster tools to associate your site with a particular location.