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title: Where you host determines your page rank on Google
date: "2006-09-24T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 203
---

[Google's dirty little secret](http://www.netlash.com/log/googles_dirty_little_secret) talks about how Google determines whether your site appears on top for a search depending on whether you and the searcher are in the same geography or not. So if your server is in Kazakhstan, expect fewer hits.