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Totally Confusing Google Rankings

by Harrylepoo
7 replies
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I'm based in the UK yet my site gets significantly higher Google placings in the US. I actually barely rank anything at all in the UK.

Keyword 1
US - 8
UK - N/A

Keyword 2
US - 16
UK - 75

That's the kind of pattern I'm getting on all of my keywords. It's not entirely a bad thing because I get a ton of traffic from the US, but I'd like to know:

1) Why this is happening. It's not as if my keywords are region specific; it's stuff like "Best Green Lantern Graphic Novels." My competitors don't seem to have this problem.

2) How can I improve my UK rankings without damaging my US ones?

As always thanks for the advice guys. I get a ton of inspiration from this forum and I can't believe some of you give your advice for free.
#confusing #google #rankings #totally
  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Is your site hosted in the UK?
    Is it using a .uk top level domain?
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  • Profile picture of the author racksjackson
    Check your site's hosting. Also check the location you have set in Google webmasters.
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Shaw
    I have the same problem (if thats what you call it?) sometimes with .co.uk domains and after looking into it I came to the conclusion it was 1) My hosting was on a US based shared server and 2) My backlink profile was US heavy.

    My advice would be add you site to as many UK directories as you can and also a few niche based uk forums.

    Hope it works out.
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  • Profile picture of the author FA8891
    It's not a problem of location, people in USA are the top Internet users for your keyword, what i suggest is to add and use a key phrase related to UK? as an example, "marketer from UK " , it's better to use a key phrases with "UK, London ...) and add your site to the top UK directories (don't use auto submission).
    Good Luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author georgefuller
    Agree.. because you are getting the result from Area / Country Server. you can use US or UK IP to check your Serp on that server for more accurate result.
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  • Profile picture of the author SherlynCook
    Yes we too had similar problem.

    For the same keywords we are ranking under 3 in US and in UK we were not even in top 20. One reason was, our servers are US based and another is we didn't have links from UK sites/ directories/ blog/ forums.

    We started targeting UK sites and got the better results.
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