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[Andy c]

My website as I have just found out is located in the USA ?? but everything I can find is UK addressed .... What I want to know is this down to me as I thought it would be UK based not USA
and/or what can I do to get this location changed to being UK ..if any as won't it effect my seo etc

thanks in advance

[paulc010]

If it has a .co.uk domain then it will automatically be targeted by Google etc. to UK searches. If it isn;t then most of the search engines allow you to set the geographic preference in their "tools" applications e.g. Google's Webmaster tools.

Paul

[scotserve]

and/or what can I do to get this location changed to being UK ..if any as won't it effect my seo etc

Andy it makes little difference at all - the world is quite a small place in internet terms - what Paul says is correct and wh have a number of high ranking UK sites on US servers.
There is a huge difference in costings within the UK and US, for instance our US servers are running with 12Gb ram, 16 cores, 4TB raid drives and several backups a day, whereas our UK servers are lower spec higher contention ratios on the switches and do not benefit from our extensive backup systems.
Its all swings and roundabouts as far as SEO goes down in the deepest bowels of the Google alogorythm you may lose a brownie point but in my experience it just doesnt matter, content is far more important than physical location.

At the end of the day if you want to move to a UK server just let me know   

[Andy c]

OK if that the case leave it as it is ,as you all know by now I am no expert on these matters was just curious that's all ..now I know I won't need to ask the question again ..
sometimes a simple question to you might be different for others

[paulc010]

It's a sensible question and I've seen many a heated debate on it on the so-called "expert" SEO forums. One guy even tried to claim that he'd conducted a controlled experiment with two sites and "proved" that the one in the UK ranked better than the one in the US. Sadly, as all sensible folks know, there's no way to conduct such an experiment (the mere fact of duplicating an entire site, plus the difference in domain names renders the experiment invalid just to start with as Google will at random pick the content from either one as "more important" on what appears to be no more than a whim all else being equal).

Wisdom does dictate though that if your geographic target is the UK, then redirect any .com domain to the .uk one, not the other way around.

Paul