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mwalling
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:36 am 
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http://www.google.com/support/webmaster ... 2399&hl=en

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You can only use this feature for sites with a generic top-level domain, such as .com or .org. Sites with country-coded top-level domains (such as .ie) are already associated with a geographic region, in this case Ireland.

If no information is entered in Webmaster Tools, we'll continue to make geographic associations largely based on the top-level domain (e.g. .co.uk or .ca) and the IP address of the webserver from which the context was served.

If no information is entered in Webmaster Tools, we'll rely largely on the site's country domain (.ca, .de, etc.). If an international domain (.com, .org, .eu, etc) has been used, we'll rely on the IP address. If you change hosting provider for a country domain, there should be no impact. If you change the hosting provider of an international domain to a provider in another country, we recommend using Webmaster Tools to tell us which country your site should be associated with.
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mwalling wrote:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=62399&hl=en

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... If an international domain (.com, .org, .eu, etc) has been used, we'll rely on the IP address.


Hi mwalling

My site is .com and was in NJ ... now is in London.
I'm not talking about geographic location, since I target Portuguese language ... for Portugal and Brazil speakers, so in this case it's not advisable to activate this functionality.

I'm talking about crawler stats for page downloading speed.
Since the UK ip's are listed as US, can this be related?

Thanks
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Guspaz
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... He's telling you that you should use the webmaster tools to tell Google where the site is.
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Guspaz wrote:
... He's telling you that you should use the webmaster tools to tell Google where the site is.


Hi know that, but we aren't talking about the same thing.

I'm talking about Google Webmaster Tools -> Diagnostics -> Crawl stats -> Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds)

I believe that Google has crawlers in Europe to crawl European sites.
If Google identifies my site location for is domain or IP and I have a neutral domain (.com), the only alternative is the site language and the IP location...

Because Linode London IP's match US location, could Google identify my site as if it was in a US location, and therefor crawled by US spiders instead of EU spiders?

There is no reason for my site jump from 150 ms to + 300 ms if it was crawled from a EU farm.

About geographic location, I can't set this option because I'm targeting a language and not a country:

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If you're targeting users in different locations—for example, if you have a site in French that you want users in France, Canada, and Mali to read—we don't recommend that you use this tool to set France as a geographic target.
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PS: English is not my language
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Actually, you're both wrong. I was talking about the OMGSEO crowd.
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lhw455
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Thanks for taking the time out to help with this - I still believe that the IP impacts the results in the SERPS for the location specific Google instance, despite what Google indicates (setting the location in Webmaster Tools). As such, I've held off getting a London Linode as ranking in the SERPS for country-specific Google SE's is important to me.

It's unfortunate as I'm ecstatic about my NJ Linode and continue to recommend them to anyone who's looking for a VPS.
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caker
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A recent MaxMind look up shows the IPs being in London. \o/

-Chris
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Thanks Chris :)
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caker wrote:
A recent MaxMind look up shows the IPs being in London. \o/

-Chris


Thanks that looks promising. Other IP lookup tools appear to still show the US as a location, do you think these will update over time?
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