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SEO Questions Related To Domains - Experts???

by GoGetta
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Hi Warriors,

Just clearing something up.

If I am building a website and I am based in the UK, and have 2 domains:

One domain ending .COM and one ending .CO.UK

If I build the site around the .COM, if I also point the .CO.UK to the same website, does it have any weight on the website at all?

What would happen if I built links to both domains?

The site in question, is going to be aimed at the UK market first and then taken international over time which is why I want to focus on the .COM for SEO reasons in the future. But, if I point the .CO.UK domain at the website too, and built links to it, would it have any effect at all?

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  • Profile picture of the author muftdagyan
    I suggest you to first build a blog on .co.uk domain and build lots of backlink,when you get pagerank for .co.uk domain than shift your blog to .com and point .co.uk to yourdomain.com.
    In the meanwhile also build backlinks for yourdomain.com.
    It will definitely gonna boost your search engine rankings.
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  • Profile picture of the author ksetu
    If your current focus is UK, I'll suggest you to go with .uk site first. That will give you an advantage in Google's eyes. Once you are ready to move to .com site for international audience, do a 301 redirect from .uk site. You will get the link juice passed from .uk to the .com site. I hope that's what you wanted.
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  • Profile picture of the author Domainate
    You should always use a .co.uk when specifically targeting the UK and should almost always use a .com when targeting internationally - so initially, 301 forward the .com to the .co.uk, then later when you expand to international, switch it up and 301 the .co.uk to the .com. SEO are only minor reasons to do it in the end - targeting is the main reason.
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    • Profile picture of the author den1231
      Originally Posted by Nametrader.com View Post

      You should always use a .co.uk when specifically targeting the UK and should almost always use a .com when targeting internationally - so initially, 301 forward the .com to the .co.uk, then later when you expand to international, switch it up and 301 the .co.uk to the .com. SEO are only minor reasons to do it in the end - targeting is the main reason.

      Perfect and after you do this you will see that all of your visitor is coming from uk and world wide but a good target to rank your keywords is in the .co.uk.
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  • Profile picture of the author GoGetta
    Cool, thanks for the input.

    So to be clear,

    If I build the site around the .co.uk first, put all my efforts into optimising, rank it high for .co.uk terms. Then when I take the site internationally, I 301 direct to the .com?

    Then, optimise the .com?

    What will happen to the ranks I already have on the .co.uk domain, will they be kept??

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