Official Google answers to common SEO questions

Question:

Could you confirm whether the geographic location of the web host has any significant ranking factors for organic SEO?

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Question	Views
My SEO client is using shared hosting for one of their websites. When I checked other sites hosted on their server, I found some spammy websites. Will that affect ranking of my client's website?	580
Geographic targeting using Webmaster Tools.	391
What is the best way to serve different content according to user country IP (legal reasons)?	435
How come the search queries report in Webmaster Tools shows some keywords ranking and when we search them they are nowhere to be found?	351
Why are the UK SERPs still really poor with irrelevant non UK sites (US/AUS/NZ) ranking very high Google.co.uk since early June?	510
What's your take on "addon domains"?	479
What impact does server location have on Google rankings?	550
Why is Google still taking notice of DMOZ?	453
Can moving my website to 'the cloud' harm my listings?	406
We are a pretty big site. We are changing our hosting company in the next few weeks (same country). Should we be scared from an SEO perspective?	529