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Yeah, why are you using a bad hosting provider?

When I was in the EU, I saw both Vodaphone and Three inject banners on the top of websites in various countries.

They're not as easy to get away from as you think.

Legacy and one of the only hosting providers in my country. I don't want to risk worse localized SEO by hosting it outside.

I've been reading up on localisation SEO lately - as far as I understand, Google only uses "server IP is located in X country" as an indicator of where a site might be localised for, if it can't get any better information.

For example, if you're using a ccTLD for the domain, or if it's a generic-TLD and you declare a country in Google Webmaster Tools, that will be a much stronger weighting.

Of course, if that's wrong I'd love to know!

Thank you. The actual web app is hosted on Linode in Frankfurt (using LetsEncrypt for https) so maybe I should host the marketing page there as well if that's true.

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