It's not a bad idea to consider where the servers are hosted. I know my personal annemoss.com site is hosted on a server in Hong Kong. I am King Kong in Hong Kong searches for that reason.

What does this do for me? Not squat since my Chinese is limited. OK, non existent. But by God I OWN Google for search words in Hong Kong! I'm not sure the diff between a U.S. server and a U.K. server would make as much of a difference. And it wouldn't be a bad idea to consider a member here. I actually prefer smaller hosts. They have to have cPanel and Fantastico, though.