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Originally Posted by scanmonkey
Does IP Location of backlinks effect Results?
I am suprised to discover that I have a lot of first page results in http://www.google.co.in (useless to me) and I can't be found as easily on Google.com for competitive keywords.
I have a good number of backlinks from Indian sites and this leads me to ask the question: "Does the IP location of backlinks effect the search results?"
I would welcome any thoughts, or comments. If you don't agree, feel free to monkey slap me.
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It seems that no one has directly answered this question for you, so I'll take a stab at it.
1. It is known that Google knows what your web site's IP address is. They use this info to discount links that come from the same server. i.e.: if you have 1000 domain names hosted on the same server and you set up links to one domain name to try to boost its ranking, google will discount those links
2. It is also known that Google uses domain name ext's to determine geopgraphic relevancy (as incrediblehelp has touched upon.
So, we can safely assume that it is possible that Google can discriminate your links based on IP location. The only thing we cant speculate on without more evidence is which carries more weight the IP or the domain? In other words, if the IP is in the US, but the domain ext is India, does google consider the site a US site or an Indian site?