SEO Question - International Domain

[Rupert]

I was thinking that if the French site were hosted on a french IP, then the data (mysql or whatever)  would have to share data, and so then it would not all be on the one server. 

What you seem to be suggesting, is having a French IP, but still actually hosting in the UK.  Is that right? So tricking Google into thinking it is hosted in France.   All you need then is an IP address in each country.  Can you buy them like that?

What about the nameservers?


Or have I got completely the wrong end of the stick. 

[Torben]

>What you seem to be suggesting, is having a French IP, but still actually hosting in the UK.  Is that right

I did that 5 years ago when local IP's was a requirement.

We had  a good relationship with our hosting partner and convinced them to register a small segment (8 IP's i think) of a C class as Swedish. So when you did a IP-to-country lookup it would apear to be Swedish even though it was hosted in Denmark.

If this is not an option Jasons alternative sounds very good.

Jason do you use Varnish or any other cache mechanism on the country servers?

[Adam C]

the scenario I mentioned earlier was actually a site using Varnish.  The proxy dropped out, rankings followed.  Proxy back, rankings followed.

[Adam C]

Varnish describes themselves as "an http accelerator, a caching reverse proxy"