I was doing some research and have spotted a pattern over Google I think google ranks pages according to the time zones ! Like if you are living at some place say NY and your sever is locted at Germany then try searching your site using your Keyword over the Google.com board at US time, I am sure you will find you page ranking at some place lower than it usually stays, and if you search using the same keyword over Google.com board according to the German time zone then I am sure you will noticed that your ranking is back to the place where it was ! I don't know if I am correct with this or not but I have been noticing this from more a while with our website! Can any one ran a check over it ??
Kelly Burby 44 Posting Pro
PixelatedKarma 65 Junior Poster in Training Featured Poster
Yeah there is a bit of a difference and we can thank google's effort for local search and the natural geo-location of their servers. Google will always attempt to show the results as cached by the nearest location of their servers - hence why google.ca and google.com SERPs will display slightly different results. The logic behind this is to provide faster loading webpages/more local results to visitors which should in theory provide more relevant results to their query.
By tricking google into believing you are a visitor in a different timezone, it's going to try and line you up with the correct geo-location data center which of course could change where you are placed in the SERPs.
Thats why personnally I am convinced it is impossible to always rank in the top 3 spots in every geo-location google provides search; although it doesn't hurt to try!
Kelly Burby 44 Posting Pro
Now, I get the idea why its always said that hosting sever should be in the place where you are targetting your site for ! Anyway thanks for confirming this @Pixelated Karma. I guess I am going to wait a bit more while to see what other member have to say about this !
johnp72014 0 Newbie Poster
Oh thanks. If it's really true then we should have hosted our website on servers around our main target location. Because it will going to give some benefit in SERP rankings.
Kelly Burby 44 Posting Pro
Well @johnp72014, I would say its always recommended to host your website over the targeted location as it do boost your postion over the SERPs! As I said on the top that I am not sure about this one because no one knows what are the factors that Google consider while ranking you over the SERPs. :P
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