Local SEO citations: does the IP address matter?

Hey guys,


Quick question: I currently own a business in Ohio and would like to start really ranking for local SEO. As such, I am considering hiring someone/a company to do all my citations for me. They are located outside the US and thus I wanted to know if it would look suspicious to Google/if I would get flagged/if it is a bad idea for me to hire them to do all my citations for me (over 100) since their IP address would be an international one/not located in Ohio.


Any advice would be appreciated.


Thanks,

Google can't possibly know about the IP of origin of a citation on a third party website. If it's done on a Google owned or controlled website, then it might be different.

Yes IP address matters a lot. My traffic doubled when I switched from offshore hosting to a local one. So answer is Yes Yes Yes.

Hosting and Ip of comments are two different things. Hosting may be in US - cause it offers less delay and more speed to US users. As for citations - do not care about it, it's meaningless and almost untraceable who did the citation - unless it's Google site or on Google's hosting.

As brkseven and ventr said, IP of comments doesn't matter since no one will know them but you and the comment posters themselves.

You're good to go. Just make sure that the citations are exactly the same across the board