Comments on: "Where is this domain hosted?" (web hosting location Firefox extensions)

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:43:51 +0000

I would also strongly suggest WorldIP, which gives you the accurate location of the datacenter used by the website (and not the country given by the registrar, contrary to other Firefox extensions like Flagfox e.g.).
In you case, it tells me you are using Combell to host your website ;)
More info -> http://www.wipmania.com/plugins/

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:31:33 +0000

GREAT PLUGIN! I never found such stuff by myself and I am technician! Great article thank you so much!

By: Everything is a Freaking DNS problem

Everything is a Freaking DNS problem — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:39:29 +0000

Fosdem 2008, looking back…

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By: Pascal

Pascal — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:27:55 +0000

In fact, the rationale for choosing your hosting in the country you target, is outdated (at least for Google) since you can now determine your targeted location in Google Webmaster Tools
http://searchengineland.com/071030-232502.php

By: ClassAd

ClassAd — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:02:47 +0000

I saw one question posted in one of the forums as below. I have the same concern and what is your advice/suggestion on this?

“I’m hosting my blog about UNITED STATES solar power incentives, http://www.solarpowerrocks.com on a VPS in Isreal. I’ve got many other VPS options around the globe available that were paid for already for another project… so switching would be easy.

My question is: Does this matter from an SEO perspective? I am reviewing US incentives…. so I’d like US traffic. Does the hosting location matter in the eyes of search engines? Should I move it to Florida? Or in that case, do the states matter? If that matters than I should stick it in Oregon. My gut says where a site is hosted doesn’t matter but I don’t know.”

By: Anay Kamat

Anay Kamat — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:24:35 +0000

Nice post. I would like to add one more point. If your site is not hosted on local server, or if it doesn’t have country domain extension than you can still get good ranking in google. For this you need to make sure that you have lot of backlinks either from locally hosted websites or from websites with country domain extension. For example, if I don’t have .co.in extention and my site is hosted by US server, I can get good ranking in google.co.in if I have lot of backlinks from websites having co.in extention.

This is where you could use these tools to know the location of websites from which you can request backlinks.