Business help and advice forum for starting and growing small businesses - Teneric Business Forums
Login Register FAQ Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

View Poll Results: Do you mostly search on Google.com or Google.co.uk
Mostly use .com 1 12.50%
Mostly use .co.uk 4 50.00%
Have .com as default page or toolbar search 0 0%
Have .co.uk as default page or toolbar search 4 50.00%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 8. You may not vote on this poll

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools
(#11)
Old
Bill Deakin's Avatar
Bill Deakin Offline
CEO
 
Posts: 158
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Cornwall, UK
Send a message via Skype™ to Bill Deakin
Re: Google search - .com or .co.uk - 17-11-2006, 02:11 PM

Thanks Fisicx, that totally makes sense...


Web Design Seminars and Video Tutorials - Learn to take control of your website!
Online Business Logic Blog - Ideas, tips and reviews for online success
Reply With Quote

(#12)
Old
Birmingham's Avatar
Birmingham Offline
CEO
 
Posts: 124
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Birmingham UK
Send a message via MSN to Birmingham
Re: Google search - .com or .co.uk - 17-11-2006, 04:27 PM

By Daniel do you mean me?

If so, do you have any evidence from the horses mouth to say that any search engine bases it's rankings on where websites are hosted?

Very interesting if you can provide some trusted sources

Quote:
Originally Posted by peterjhale
Daniel

Getting it hosted in the UK is really going to help you.
Reply With Quote
(#13)
Old
squalid Offline
CEO
 
Posts: 313
Join Date: Sep 2006
Re: Google search - .com or .co.uk - 17-11-2006, 05:15 PM

how about this from Vanessa Fox who works at google -

For .com domains, we rely on the location of the IP address. My best
suggestions (although either may be difficult) would be to either
switch the server back to a UK-based IP or move your site to a .co.uk
domain (and redirect the .com to it).
Reply With Quote
(#14)
Old
Bill Deakin's Avatar
Bill Deakin Offline
CEO
 
Posts: 158
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Cornwall, UK
Send a message via Skype™ to Bill Deakin
Re: Google search - .com or .co.uk - 17-11-2006, 05:44 PM

Would a .org.uk be as good as .co.uk for this?

Bill


Web Design Seminars and Video Tutorials - Learn to take control of your website!
Online Business Logic Blog - Ideas, tips and reviews for online success
Reply With Quote
(#15)
Old
TWD-Tony's Avatar
TWD-Tony Offline
Moderator
 
Posts: 781
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Manchester, UK
Re: Google search - .com or .co.uk - 17-11-2006, 07:05 PM

Yes Bill - any domain extension that indicates the target audience will be fine

Birmingham - you have posted in another thread "ask me any SEO question..." and yet you did not know this well known fact - that search engines use a servers physical location (via geo-ip location) to determine relevance???????
This has been known for a long time and the SE's admit to it openly... Without it the search engines could not possibly know the relevance of any .com / .net / .org etc...
The current arguement is IF having UK hosting increases your position in the SERPS for UK only searches over your competitors using non-uk hosting. The evidence seems to state that IT DOES - so you are better with a .uk domain on a UK server if you are targeting UK customers


Total Web Development - Business Website Solutions.
Feel free to contact me with any website issues.
Reply With Quote
(#16)
Old
timd1230 Offline
Business Director
 
Posts: 51
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Ipswich Suffolk
Re: Google search - .com or .co.uk - 18-11-2006, 01:19 AM

I started off with a .com - hosted in the USA - it was cheap but I did not know why I did not rank well in the uk - I now know the reasons and have .co.uk site and webhosting. If I had realised this 12 monts ago I would have been a long way ahead of where I am now - Still the site and rankings are starting to climb now

Tim
Reply With Quote
(#17)
Old
Birmingham's Avatar
Birmingham Offline
CEO
 
Posts: 124
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Birmingham UK
Send a message via MSN to Birmingham
Arrow Re: Google search - .com or .co.uk - 18-11-2006, 11:31 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by squalid
how about this from Vanessa Fox who works at google -

For .com domains, we rely on the location of the IP address. My best
suggestions (although either may be difficult) would be to either
switch the server back to a UK-based IP or move your site to a .co.uk
domain (and redirect the .com to it).
Excellent quote, do you have a source document? like a google-hosted webpage or similar?


Quote:
Originally Posted by TWD-Tony
Birmingham - you have posted in another thread "ask me any SEO question..." and yet you did not know this well known fact.
It may be well known to you but I'm still looking for proof. Do you think I should never have offered such help in the other forum? Do you think my help so far has been of a poor quality?
Reply With Quote
(#18)
Old
squalid Offline
CEO
 
Posts: 313
Join Date: Sep 2006
Re: Google search - .com or .co.uk - 18-11-2006, 11:59 AM

Quote:
Excellent quote, do you have a source document? like a google-hosted webpage or similar?
why do you think i just made it up ? a quick google search would probably find it.
Reply With Quote
(#19)
Old
Birmingham's Avatar
Birmingham Offline
CEO
 
Posts: 124
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Birmingham UK
Send a message via MSN to Birmingham
Re: Google search - .com or .co.uk - 18-11-2006, 12:11 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by squalid
why do you think i just made it up ? a quick google search would probably find it.
a google search for that quote returns only one listing - a page from webmasterworld - maybe they made it up? i can't access it anyway without registering with them, and google hasnt cached the page.
Reply With Quote
(#20)
Old
squalid Offline
CEO
 
Posts: 313
Join Date: Sep 2006
Re: Google search - .com or .co.uk - 18-11-2006, 12:20 PM

probably everyone made it up to try and fool you - but they picked the wrong man to try and fool
Reply With Quote

Reply



Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Search Engine Cloaking software provides search engine ranking solution rougedesign Introduce yourself 9 02-10-2006 04:32 PM
.com or .co.uk BIZAL Internet Marketing Forum 5 22-02-2006 06:06 PM
So that's how it works!!! redcog Search Engine Optimisation Forum 4 10-04-2005 01:57 PM
Content optimisation for the search engines ARTzWeb.net Internet Marketing Forum 2 02-01-2005 08:31 PM



Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2008, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
SEO by vBSEO 3.1.0 ©2007, Crawlability, Inc.