Location of Your Web Server Does Impact Your Rankings

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Matt Cutts on the Google Webmaster Help YouTube Channel confirmed that where you have your server does impact your rankings in Google. If you have a server in France and your site is for banking. People searching for “banking” in France will see your site higher up than if they were in the United States looking for it.

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