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Originally Posted by blitzen
This is an interesting concern for us.
Does anyone have any real data supporting this claim?
We're a legal US business with a host in Canada.
99% of our customers are from the US.
Our domain is ".com".
Why would G work against a global economy?
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Bitzen,
Do an IP lookup on your domain.. chances are that it is actually hosted in the US anyway. most 'Canadian' Hosts use US DataCentres...
Also North America is pretty much the same market, and in our case it makes very little if any difference. Where it does make a difference is over seas and definitely different countries.
Sometimes it will make a difference locally with speed on very high volume sites, I've moved some clients to data centers in the middle of their market eg. having a site hosted in california can result in dramatically less network nodes (hops) to pass through resulting in a much faster site than if it had been hosted say in NY.
We have both Canadian and US clients on our servers in the US and on our servers in Canada. for they still all rank very well.
Some countries it makes a HUGE difference. In the past and possibly still in someplaces, country specific TLDs were required to be hosted within the country borders but this does a ppear to be loosening up. (we just transfered some .co.jp sites to one of our clients servers down in the US).
note: I do try to put .ca domains on our Canadian servers... though I didn't notice a difference in the rankings locally or internationally.