: Do I need to physically host my website in separate countries for SEO? I run an ecommerce store that is hosted in Ireland, and ranks ok with google.ie The market for this comapny is the

@Shakeerah822

Some web hosting companies provide RIPE IP Failover blocks. It allows you to choose the geolocation of each IP block: IE, FR, DE, ES, EN, PL and so on (all IP Failover blocks route to your server). Thus you'll improve the SEO of your projects in major search engines.

Then no need to have a website URL like

mywebsite.com/ie/home www.mywebsite.com/uk/home


because you know from which route your visitors came from so you display the related content:
visitors who reach the website through IP Failover A see mywebsite.ie, visitors who reach the website through IP Failover B see mywebsite.co.uk.

Easier to maintain: only one server.
Cheaper: only the cost of the second domain name and few IP Failover.


I hope it helps.

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@Correia994

In the accepted answer of this question SEO implications of hosting a UK-based site on an EC2 instance based in Ireland you have link pointing to usefull resources and answers to your question googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html
Ih this page, I think you have your answer


Dealing with duplicate content on global websites
Websites that
provide content for different regions and in different languages
sometimes create content that is the same or similar but available on
different URLs. This is generally not a problem as long as the content
is for different users in different countries. While we strongly
recommend that you provide unique content for each different group of
users, we understand that this may not always be possible for all
pages and variations from the start. There is generally no need to
"hide" the duplicates by disallowing crawling in a robots.txt file or
by using a "noindex" robots meta tag. However, if you're providing the
same content to the same users on different URLs (for instance, if
both "example.de/" and "example.com/de/" show German language content
for users in Germany), it would make sense to choose a preferred
version and to redirect (or use the "rel=canonical" link element)
appropriately.

Do you already have a website that targets multiple regions or do you
have questions about the process of planning one? Come to the Help
Forum and join the discussion. In following posts, we'll take a look
at multi-lingual websites and then look at some special situations
that can arise with global websites. Bis bald!

Written by John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google Switzerland


Hope this helps

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