Is it worth to have a DNS manage service like easydns or ultradns in terms of seo ?

[paulogoncalves]

I have a HTML site hosted in Netherlands, i use Could Files from Rackspace and Cloudfront from Amazon as CDN.

My target audience are in Portugal

Is it worth to have a DNS Manage service in terms of seo?

If so what are the benefits?

Thank you

Paulo

[SeoStallion]

From what I understand hosting in the correct region is beneficial however area is not. So if you are targeting Portugal it would be beneficial to have it hosted in Portugal although where in abouts in Portugal it is hosted is not important.

[firstconversion]

Put this on your list as the last thing to do after youve done everything else. Gains, if any, are likely to be very small

[StalkerB]

The DNS isn't really to do with where something is hosted but how the information flows across the web. Basically name servers are like an address book for the web. In fact read the start of this wiki article.

You are correct though that having a .pt domain and being hosted in Portugal would be beneficial for SEO.

[StalkerB]

Hi Paulo,

I can't think of any way to objectively measure whether it would make a difference or not, however, just putting my mind to work on it, there is a small possibility that it could be included in a trust algorithm; spammers are unlikely to be paying the extra to use them.

Anycast DNS may also mean your site has a better uptime rate when parts of the Internet go down or be very slightly faster but I don't think it's worth doing just from a SEO perspective.