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If you have a website that is mostly aimed at the Canadian market place please read this web hosting information once or twice. Its important for your website and therefore for your success online. If you’re looking for a much wider audience please still read the article and examine the last section.

If your website is aimed at the Canadian market there are dozens of thing that you can do to your help website but two of the biggest decisions right from the start will affect your success.

Make sure your website is REALLY located in Canada. Many Canadian hosting companies actually rent server space in the USA. That is not the best thing for your Canadian targeted website and even worse they are misrepresenting their services. Look closely and examine if you’ll have a Canadian based server. We recommend one company, Broadline Networks, who does provide that with some reasonable pricing.

Also if you currently have not registered a domain for your online business and you are aiming for the Canadian market register a .ca domain. It will help your website.

So you might ask how will these two things help your Canadian targeted website? Well we will assume that you will be looking at attracting visitors via search engine (Google, Bing, Yahoo). These search engine do place some value/weight (therefore better ranking) on a Canadian hosted .ca websites when people search on their Canadian search engines (google.ca-one example). Now, no one can say the exact percentage on how much it will help you but if something helps you rank 5 per cent better than anyone else why not set that up from the start?

For information purposes I’ll tell you that another web site that I know is hosted in Canada. Its ranks number 8 for certain terms on Google.com but number two for Google.ca and the main difference is the website is hosted in Canada.

For Canadians looking at a bigger market your hosting decision does not require you to host in Canada. In this case I would recommend that you look at the other two options mentioned on this website. But please stay away from any web hosting company that requires you to pay for 24 or 36 months in advance just to receive a decent price. Also avoid any company that says you’ll receive unlimited bandwidth or unlimited disk space. It will never happen and you would never need it.