Does Server Location have anything to do with Search Results

[Prime85]

Good Morning Everyone...

Does having a site hosted in Europe have any effect on Search Engine results in the US?

Thanks

[Wallander]

Hi, I posted this question recently and the consensus was that it does still seem to have an impact. Also check out  this video with Matt Cutts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXt23AXlJJU

[Prime85]

Thanks... That video is from 2009, does anyone know if this is still relevant?

[SeanLade]

Hi, I'm based in the UK, based on some advice we moved ours from Chicago to Manchester (UK). We saw a bit of a leap. I think it's due to the locality of data centres. We were doing a bunch of other SEO at the time though. Hope this helps

[gfiorelli1]

Hi all...

actually it is not the physical presence of a site in a targeted country that matters, but its IP, that is why you can choose if having the site hosted in the targeted country or buying an IP corresponding to that country, and operates via proxy caching.

Said that, and also due to the evolution of the Cloud, Google is not considering it a main factor, as it says here:

Server location (through the IP address of the server). The server location is often physically near your users and can be a signal about your site’s intended audience. Some websites use distributed content delivery networks (CDNs) or are hosted in a country with better webserver infrastructure, so it is not a definitive signal.

(from this post)