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Spoof country where webserver is located – SEO

I have several domainnames hosted on 1 VPS for example domainname.fr and domainname.es

The webserver is located in a France datacenter.

Now i have read that for SEO purposes it is best for domainname.fr to be hosted on a webserver located in France and for domainname.es te be hosted on a webserver that is located in Spain.

Is this something that can be spoofed? So let the searchengine THINK that the webserver is located in Spain (for the .es domainname) while it is actualy hosted on a webserver in France?

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    A possible solution would be to use a CDN like CloudFlare. They have datacenters in both Spain and France so for a visitor it would seem that the traffic comes from a national server.

    Note that I am not familiar with CloudFlare’s algorithms so I don’t know for sure that in Spain the Spanish data center would be used 100% of the time.

    I am also not sure about the real effect it will have on SEO but as you will get ssl for free (in the case of CloudFlare…), there is definitely a positive effect if you don’t use ssl yet.

    An additional advantage is that you are not actually spoofing anything, you are really using data centers close to the visitor so a crack-down on spoofing / dubious SEO methods will not affect you in the future.

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    Now i have read that for SEO purposes it is best for domainname.fr to
    be hosted on a webserver

    This is totally incorrect. A country level domain like an .fr domain is already geo targeted to france and server location is irrelevant.

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