Comments on: How Many People Search “Pages from the UK” on Google?

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:18:43 +0000

Google has now posted details of how its geo-targeting works in the webmaster tools help centre:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=62399

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:38:30 +0000

@stephen Your are correct that a regional domain name (e.g. .co.uk) does not have to be hosted in the target country, but a generic domain (e.g. .com) does.

At the time this post was written we did extensive research into this. I know Google have relaxed the geo-targeting rules now but I am sure that this rule still applies.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:50:33 +0000

The location of the host should not influence the ranking of the site. Ie if it is a ‘.co.uk’ but hosted in the US it should not matter, or it would be a case of being forced to host in your home country.

By: ian guiver

ian guiver — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:55:37 +0000

An important issue for the very large number of companies operating in the UK but based in the US. I look forward to reading your conclusions

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:46:34 +0000

@Benny,

If you email your stats to brad@zeta.net I will collate the data for you.

By: Benny Mitchell

Benny Mitchell — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:02:09 +0000

Interesting article, hope results are published