SEO Tip #33: Can the geographic location of a web server affect SEO?
Matt Cutts: Yes it does because we look at the IP address of your web server.
So if your web server is based in Germany we’re more likely to think that it’s useful for German users. That’s not the only country we’re going to return you for and we also look at the TLDs. So we look at .de, .fr, and all those sorts of things.
You can also specify in Google’s
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