Does hosting server location affect my local google page rank

[aidanlawlor]

Hi All,

This is my first (of many I would say) questions.

My clients site is in Ireland but the hosting service is in Canada. So when i use the MozBar it states that the IP is in Canada.

Will this affect my page ranking in Dublin, Ireland?

The company is a plumbing service so we would only want local Dublin customers.

Thanks so much and I hope someone can help me out.

cheers,

Aidan

[haest]

The hosting location shouldn't matter if you host your site using a ccTLD (Country code top-level domain). A Google Employee confirmed this a long time ago and I don't think it changed since then.

[gfiorelli1]

To call John Mu simply as a Google Employee is to undervalue him, as he is the Webmaster Trends Analyst in Google :).

So... knowing who he is, somehow makes even more relevant what he says.