I’ve heard some people question this theory lately. Some people think that the hosting you use (Based on the country) can affect your SERP’s. For example, if your hosting is located in the United Kingdom, you won’t do as well in the United States, and vice-vera.

I did a few tests to check whether this was true or not.

First of all, I searched Site SEO on Google UK. Page 6. Shocking. After that, I tried out Google US, and it came up in position 2. The hosting is from the US.

Second of all, I searched General Dir on Google UK. Nowhere to be seen. Then, I tried it out on Google US, and it came up in the top position. The hosting is also from the US.

Based on these results, it shows that hosting actually does affect your rankings. That means it could be really important for a website/company targetting a single company, such as London Solicitors, because if their hosting is located in the US, then they could be doing well in an area they don’t need.

For all local based websites, I recommend getting hosting from the same country as the one you’re targetting.

This is just something I found the other day.

Now, we all know that when you search for something, you nearly always get Wikipedia Results showing high up on Google. For some people, that might be okay because it might be what they’re looking for, but it is very annoying when you want to find any website that isn’t wikipedia!

This is where this trick comes in. Its a search bar built for Mozilla Firefox, and whenever you search from it, no wikipedia results will be shown at all!

To get started, download this and this. When you have these two files, go to your Firefox Installation folder and go into the searchplugins folder. Then simply drop these two files in.

When you restart firefox, it should all work now.

If you have a heart, you must feel sorry for the less fortunate people out there who aren’t as lucky as you or me. Unfortunately, some of us are too lazy to help these people with money, or maybe they just want to spend it on themselves. However, with this website, you can do both. You can be lazy, and you can help the less fortunate.

Basically, a new Search Engine has been created. Xabbel donates 100% of its revenue to charity, which is a real good thing to do. All you have do is search on there, and they earn money when sponsored ads are clicked. Remember - The more you search, the more you’re helping charity.

I really encourage you to make this your default search engine on your computer, make it your homepage and tell your friends. We can help these people, even if you don’t want to do much work or effort.