G'Day.
You can tell already I'm from Australia.
I am hosting my new .au site on a US server, and I have no problems with showing results on
www.google.com.au - I have some no.1 results for my search terms for .au searches, and since many Aussies prefer to search Australian pages for increased relevancy this is great. I have keywords for the geographical location anyway, but so did my .com site which NEVER returned results for an "Austalian" search, so it does seem that the .com.au domain is the winner for Aussie sites marketing to Aussies.
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