I have a client who is based in Australia and Australia is his market, thus he rightly feels results in google.com.au are most important to him. However, he is having difficulty getting in the Australian Google, but not Google.com.

I guess there are a couple of factors that will help and hinder this.

1) A .com.au domain name as opposed to a .com

2) where the site is hosted - but it appears many Australian hosts have their servers in the USA

Which of the above is critical? 1) or 2) or both? And are there more factors?

Thanks

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