Will hosting my website on a US based server damage its search engine rankings for people in the UK?

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RowlandH

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Hi, <br />
my website is aimed at the European and UK market. I am considering hosting it with a US webhost, mainly for reasons of cost and quality of service. Will doing so harm my search engine rankings for people searching from the UK and Europe?<br />
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Thanks<br />
 
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JanethD

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Yes it can.

It takes it a month or two but you should see the ranking slowly start to change over to the .com searches.
 
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DanielR

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No, it would only have a marginal influence. A lot more important are standard SEO practices, like title tags, headers, website copy, link building. If you're worried about it, you could do a search on some of the keywords you're interested in and see what hosting your competitors use. (you can use http//www.whoishostingthis.com ) or better yet check what is really important, and that is how many backlinks they have. (I recommend http//tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html for this)

P.S. Since you're from the UK http//www.hosttell.com/one are currently having a promotion in the UK. They are offering one year of a free hosting and a domain (You have to pay the £9.50 setup fee and that's it). They're a nice choice if you don't need more than 3GB of disk space.
 
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JohnBrown

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Well it doesnt harm that much.

But if you want to target European audience especially from UK it is recommended to buy a co.uk domain.

I hope this clarifies all your doubts
 
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Guest

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I've moved my UK websites to be hosted from the US a year ago and it didnt effect my ranking or visitors.

Keeping my domain names with the same company probably helped.

The only different is a slight slow down of page loading times as response times to get the data from the US will be longer. (eg. mine changed from 30ms to 130ms), making pages take 1 to 2sec longer to load.
 
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CoolGuy

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No way, where the files are hosted isn't what matters at all. Your domain extension (i.e. .co.uk versus .com) might matter, but that's it. Personally, I would say getting a .com is the best choice anyways, as it is basically universally accepted.

If you need a high quality US host with awesome support and an owner that will personally help you with absolutely anything, including tips on search engine rankings, check out http//www.hostamina.com - they'll also make sure you end up on a fast reliable server (they don't overload servers like most companies).
 
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