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Hi Emerald,

First off, great response above by Andrew.

I just wanted to throw in a suggestion on using a web host such as site5. They are a US based company like you are looking for but they also provide the option to choose your server location - one of which is in Sydney Australia.

They should provide you everything you need with US support and reliability, but with a AU server location.

http://www.site5.com/hosting/web/ Just select your server location to get the details.

Thanks, Casey

I highly recommend NOT using GoDaddy, their service is okay if your lucky. The problem is that they max out all of their servers with as much clients as they can which can effect your performance if your on one of these. At least thats my experience with their shared options.

I would check out Site5 or Host Rocket if you want to get rid of Host Gator

There was a recent update this past week (1/4/2012), so if you check now it will be accurate. They try to update it about once a month. You can keep up with the schedule at http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule

Check out http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/domain-authority to get more familiar with domain authority before you try and increase it. This article also links to those great whiteboards by Rand. Basically you need to increase overall SEO