Website results appearing in google.com but not .co.uk

fluiduk · 27 Dec 2006 at 12:02

Hi All

I have a clients site, www.dimensionsfitness.com. It used to rank really high in google.co.uk, but has since dissapeared.

All of the new pages are in .com, but that doesnt deliver as much traffic as google.co.uk did.

The only thing that has changed is the location of the sever, it is now in a US data centre.

Any one have any experience of this and how to get round it?

Thanks

James07 · 27 Dec 2006 at 12:21

.com is US

.co.uk is UK

So .co.uk results come up first on google.co.uk, .com will be further through the pages... i suggest expanding the url so you own the .co.uk and .com...

Sherbs · 27 Dec 2006 at 13:12

Your server location is in the US. Doubt you can do much about it. Google certainly won't allow it.

toString · 27 Dec 2006 at 13:29

This is an interesting one for me, as I've always wondered what happens if you have a .uk + US hosting.

Obviously a .com + US hosting is going to produce best results for google.com.

fluiduk · 27 Dec 2006 at 14:17

We own the .co.uk as well. How would I go about using this without causing duplicate content penalties?

I am going to move the site to a UK server and see if that helps

Aaron

Gav · 29 Dec 2006 at 13:53

using "fitness luton" it came up forth in the list, of nonpaying ads, on google.co.uk. I wouldn't say that was too bad.

10th "gym luton"
5th "personal trainer luton"
4 pages "health club luton"

I think you should look at an adwords campaign for them.

kibblerok · 29 Dec 2006 at 18:05

.com and US hosting wont appear in uk results

it needs to have either *.uk as the domain or hosted in the UK

Gav · 29 Dec 2006 at 18:11

Thats rubbish. My site is hosted in the us and has a .com address and it lists in google.co.uk. As does the site the guy is talking about.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=fitness+luton&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

4th entry down on my resuts. .com address and it's hosted in the US.

** actually it was 3rd on the results. 4th,5th and 6th all have .com addresses

Al Vallario · 30 Dec 2006 at 02:55

Gav said:
Thats rubbish. My site is hosted in the us and has a .com address and it lists in google.co.uk. As does the site the guy is talking about.

...and when you do a UK specific search – as is the entire matter being discussed – what do you know, it's not there.

Just doing a search on Google.co.uk without filtering out non-UK websites will yield near identical (I've noticed some differences recently, but nothing major) results as on Google.com. It's when you select country-specific results filtering that Google start getting picky about domain extensions and where the website is hosted.

*av

MikeHunt79 · 30 Dec 2006 at 03:10

So if my hosting is in the US, but I'm using a .co.uk domain, my site should show up in the UK specific search, right?

robmiller · 30 Dec 2006 at 05:43

MikeHunt79 said:
So if my hosting is in the US, but I'm using a .co.uk domain, my site should show up in the UK specific search, right?

Mine certainly does, I don't know if that's a hard-and-fast rule though.

MikeHunt79 · 30 Dec 2006 at 13:51

robmiller said:
Mine certainly does, I don't know if that's a hard-and-fast rule though.

Exellent, that's good enough for me... I haven't bought my hosting yet, so it's nice to know all these things before signing on the line, so to speak.

Gav · 30 Dec 2006 at 16:03

Al Vallario said:
– as is the entire matter being discussed – what do you know, it's not there.

Where does it say that? The statement was that it shows up on google.com but not on google.co.uk. No-one mentioned filtering.

fluiduk · 30 Dec 2006 at 17:44

I have just switched all my sites to a UK server so will be interesting to see what happens

Aaron

MikeHunt79 · 30 Dec 2006 at 18:54

fluiduk said:
I have just switched all my sites to a UK server so will be interesting to see what happens

Aaron

Let us know if there are any differences, if any. Google is a pain to figure out, and getting a good ranking can be a black art.

kibblerok · 31 Dec 2006 at 16:06

Gav said:
Thats rubbish.

No its not, check the facts.

fluiduk · 10 Jan 2007 at 09:57

Just to let you all know. Within a week of switching to a UK server the site was listed in the .co.uk version of google.

Make of that what you will

Thanks for your help

Aaron

Beansprout · 10 Jan 2007 at 11:07

robmiller said:
Mine certainly does, I don't know if that's a hard-and-fast rule though.

You have a .uk domain