Interesting! When you say generic domains, do you mean just .com or others?
Cheers, -Dan 2009/12/8 Harvey Kane <[email protected]> > It used to be the case that a country-specific domain (eg .com.au) will > always be treated as an Australian site no matter where it's hosted. You > can't even override this using webmaster tools. > > For generic domains, the hosting country determined the regional > preference if you hadn''t specifically set it in webmaster tools. > > This was correct a year or so ago, and should still hold true - but you > never know. > > Harvey. > > > > > Dan Khan wrote: > > I always use google webmaster tools to set my site's location so this > > should capture non-geographic server locations. > > Think MSN lets you do this using their tools too. > > > > Cheers, > > -Dan > > > > > > 2009/12/8 Bruce Clement <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > > Not anything definitive, but I host off-shore and my .co.nz > > <http://co.nz> domains show up in searches as New Zealand sites > > while my .co.uk <http://co.uk> domains show up as British. > > > > As I understand it, .coms won't do the same, which is yet another > > reason to always have the domain name for your target market. > > > > 2009/12/8 chris burgess <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > > What's the current word on SEO and geographic location of > > servers? Is a .com.au site which is physically hosted in NZ or > > USA likely to suffer any form of penalty in search engine > > listings for Australian users? > > > > > > > > -- > > Bruce Clement > > > > -- > > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > > To post, send email to [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > To unsubscribe, send email to > > > > [email protected]<nzphpug%[email protected]> > > > > <mailto:nzphpug%[email protected]<nzphpug%[email protected]> > > > > > > > > -- > > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > > To post, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to > > [email protected]<nzphpug%[email protected]> > > > -- > Harvey Kane > > Phone. +649 950 4133 > Mobile. +6421 811 951 > Email. [email protected] > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected]<nzphpug%[email protected]> > -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
