Hmm. Did you set your LANGUAGE tag accordingly?
Code:
<meta name="language" content="en-au" />
would be proper, as AU is the corresponding ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 code element:
http://tinyurl.com/btkp
With XHTML you could use
Code:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en-au" lang="en-au">
I have tested this with DE and EN and it works, I have no idea if it works with alpha-2 elements.
I do not see why the location of the server should be critical. After all, if I decide to make a site in french, why should I rent a server in France?? For every different language version of my site a server in another country??
There are proper ways to identify the language of an HTML document, and this alone should count.
From where did you get the "fact" that the location of the site is "critical"?
Greetings,
Alex