Does IP Location of backlinks effect Results?

[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.

[Novice Investing]

Sorry. I'm a newbie. How did the search engine know the IP location of a web address? If a .in domain is hosted in the UK, does that constitute as a UK IP location or....?

[scanmonkey]

Sorry. I'm a newbie. How did the search engine know the IP location of a web address? If a .in domain is hosted in the UK, does that constitute as a UK IP location or....?

You can do a whois record search to find the IP location. http://whois.domaintools.com/

The country domain extenstion is another factor that the algo could take into consideration when weighing backlinks.

[SemAdvance]

Yes the region / location of where a majority of the links originate, could bolster the results on Googles localized version of their search engines.

Add to this english words would be less competitive than the native language and you can see how you rank well on the foreign google engine for your term as compared to the google.com

And as you said no matter what it is a useless ranking to you.

Hope it helps

Clint

[wige]

As a guess, I think the domain name would probably be more important than the location of the IP address. As pricing and services for foriegn hosting companies becomes more competitive, businesses are starting to host with servers that are not in their own country, making the host IP address location meaningless (after all, how many small businesses host their own web servers in their home towns?). I would be very suprised if Google considered the physical location of the server. I would not be suprised at all if they did take into account the top-level domain, and possibly even the language of the linking page.

I just had a terrifying thought though... I keep getting ads from SEO companies promising top ten ranking in Google for the keywords of my choice... I notice they don't specify Google.com...

[incrediblehelp]

Yes the region / location of where a majority of the links originate, could bolster the results on Googles localized version of their search engines.

I agree Clint. Actually this is a large factor determining rank on regionalized Google's. Just another part of the overall formula as to why a UK website ranks well in the UK search engines and not the American search engines.

[SemAdvance]

Hi Jaan

Well we see things in the same way on a great many issues surrounding SEO and the more inane workings of Google.

I have also found, and feel this could help a lot of others, is there are very solid feelings about the TLD of a domain.

If you are in the UK and selling products that only are delivered in the UK then your website may do better in converting to sales if you use the .co.uk TLD as opposed to .com

I am also wondering if others see this same thing in their countries??

Peace

[scanmonkey]

Yes the region / location of where a majority of the links originate, could bolster the results on Googles localized version of their search engines.

This seems to be the case. I am seeing juiced rankings in http://www.google.co.in. Approx 2% improvement in http://www.google.co.uk and http://www.google.com.au/

Add to this english words would be less competitive than the native language and you can see how you rank well on the foreign google engine for your term as compared to the google.com

The language doesn't seem to help. For search terms that we are ranking first page, we are on the 5th page for http://www.google.de and buried in http://www.google.com.br and http://www.google.fr/

And as you said no matter what it is a useless ranking to you.

India is probably the worst place to have juiced results. The mailbox is full from people looking for work or trying to sell us something.

[wmrobwl]

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.

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?

[scanmonkey]

Wmrobwl, the domain ext isn't a factor in this case. My domain is located in the U.S. and is .com and I don't link to many Indian tlds.