Hosting affects the SE Ranking?

I agree with this statement. I have been using both local webhosting and US based webhosting.

And I have learned that my websites which locate with US based webhosting get better search engine search results and positions than the local based webhosting's.

And those website also get listed at the best top 5 pages from major search engines.

Moreover, I can get more clients, visitors, and customers to my websites.

By the way, this is just someone who wants the international customers only. If you want local customers only, just use your local webhosting instead because it is about connection to your websites and visitors too.

armanbarbuco, can you provide a reference for that quote?

I've never heard of this being true but then again, I haven't heard of it not being true either. For the main/US site, that is. I think they do look at the host locations for their localized searches.

So do they consider the main engine at Google.com to be the US version and not general to all countries? That's obviously a big problem for sites hosted in other countries!!

The statement is true
It is necessary to host your server in the same location where you want to target the visitors.

It only has very little effect. This is just due to the different datacenters and the update process it undertakes every once in a while.

I think it effect a little bit. but the domain name is more important towards the hosting

It effects does not much more< and also Agree with Jenny19 That's domain name is more important as a hosting.

Now you can target the geographic location of your site in webmaster tools. I asked there if checking the "Do not associate a geographic location with this site" will override any other indicators they're using (host location).

I'd also still like to know if they consider the main index at google.com to be the US site and if any sites geotargetted to other countries will have weaker rankings in that index.

Agreed, It is not based upon physical server location, but who owns/registered the IPs. However, if your site IP belongs to a UK network, your site would be rewarded in google.co.uk BUT I haven't noted any loss on traffic in google.com itself.

Rubbish!

Google will try to geotarget results for you, but not based on the
IP of the hosting server.

You see, the IP of the hosting server has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with
the relevance or importance of a page hosted on that server.

That's why they don't do that.

So, if you live in the Philippines, Google will try to give you pages
that are .ph or mention Philippines, IF they are relevant to your query.

Bompa

I have not heard this before and i would be a little sceptical as to whether this is correct.

In the Google blog post about the new geotargetting feature she explicitly says that they used to look at the server location in determing the geotarget of the website.

What I'm not sure on is whether the new geotargetting feature will override other indicators. For example, if my site is hosted in the UK but I indicate that my site is not geotargetted, wilil it still use the other indicators to decide that my site is UK based?