I've always understood that as long as I have a .co.uk domain name then the Search Engines will know it's a UK related site so it doesn't matter if it's hosted in the US or with 1and1 (Germany). I've recently been checking physical location of servers of the top 20 websites for some new markets to me in Google and found that they all seem to be UK based (except monoliths like Wikipedia if they mention uk words). I want to target Germany also and register .de domains for german language sites but I was hoping to host them all on my US based server....looks like I'll have to rethink as I haven't found 1 website in the top 20 results hosted outside Germany (except 1 in Austria). So are any of you doing well in the SERPs in Google.co.uk with US or 1and 1 hosted sites?
A .uk domain, a UK IP, and now UK formatted address data seem to be the 3 magic keys to the G UK index
The same should apply to .de. Attack through the addess route if you have concerns, add an identifiably German address to the footer of every page you wish to appear in Google.de
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