Ranking uk and Us question please help?

jeremyfarrar · 10-17-2011, 11:30 AM

hello i have a site and i do product reviews. the site ends in .net
Now for certain keywords i rank very well in the uk google sometimes number 1 but def normally on the first page.
My problem is i rank badly in the Us rankings

My hosting account is based in the United states and my site ends in .net.
I would like to rank higher on the Us google as there is more traffic.

Now whats strange is i have another website with the same hosting ending in .com and that ranks better in the us then it does it the uk but i want it to rank better in the uk.

I have included keywords on this site that are in the uk towns and places.In my domain i also have an uk town.

If anyone could help it would be great. thanks

Alexa Smith · 10-17-2011, 12:20 PM

Unlike country-specific extensions, top-level domain extensions don't affect SEO at all. More fully explained here, not to mention throughout this thread.

The .net extension and US-hosting are not handicapping your site's ranking in Google.com in any way. How well it ranks is simply a matter of its collective on-page and off-page SEO compared (by Google's algorithms) with its competitors, for its various keywords.

The situation regarding ranking highly on Google.co.uk is different. For this purpose, both a .co.uk (or .uk.com) domain name and hosting on a UK server will be advantageous, as Matt Cutts explains in the video below.

What impact does server location have on...

Mike Anthony · 10-17-2011, 03:24 PM

Alexa is correct that location and .co.uk is important but you don't need both. .coms located in the UK do just as well as .co.uk. If you listen to Matt in fact the location is now the better of the two. So getting a server in the uk is best. Now after that and why you may be experiencing what you are is that Google also looks at the IP addresses of the pages linking to you.

So technically a site located in the UK could end up getting better placement in the US .com if you get most of your link juice from the US

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jeremyfarrar Active Warrior Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Verwood,United kingdom Posts: 51 Thanks: 3 Thanked 10 Times in 10 Posts	Ranking uk and Us question please help? hello i have a site and i do product reviews. the site ends in .net Now for certain keywords i rank very well in the uk google sometimes number 1 but def normally on the first page. My problem is i rank badly in the Us rankings My hosting account is based in the United states and my site ends in .net. I would like to rank higher on the Us google as there is more traffic. Now whats strange is i have another website with the same hosting ending in .com and that ranks better in the us then it does it the uk but i want it to rank better in the uk. I have included keywords on this site that are in the uk towns and places.In my domain i also have an uk town. If anyone could help it would be great. thanks

10-17-2011, 03:24 PM	#3
Mike Anthony SEO D'Artagnan War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 4,980 Thanks: 476 Thanked 1,090 Times in 701 Posts	Re: Ranking uk and Us question please help? Alexa is correct that location and .co.uk is important but you don't need both. .coms located in the UK do just as well as .co.uk. If you listen to Matt in fact the location is now the better of the two. So getting a server in the uk is best. Now after that and why you may be experiencing what you are is that Google also looks at the IP addresses of the pages linking to you. So technically a site located in the UK could end up getting better placement in the US .com if you get most of your link juice from the US
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