ncsuk
msg:123474 | 2:13 pm on Jun 4, 2003 (gmt 0) |
I only have my sites stats to go about on this so I cant say but I would be interested to know.
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Alec Doggone
msg:123475 | 2:19 pm on Jun 4, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Not too long ago, I held no. 1 position in Google.co.uk (with filter) for a very popular search term. I received less than 10 hits the entire month. So, I don't think many people filter the resukts...
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tigger
msg:123476 | 2:19 pm on Jun 4, 2003 (gmt 0) |
maybe I'll have to get this info the old fashion way and ask friends if they use the uk filter
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vitaplease
msg:123477 | 2:25 pm on Jun 4, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Results from France: [webmasterworld.com...] I won't comment on possible nationalistic differences.
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wruk999
msg:123478 | 2:28 pm on Jun 4, 2003 (gmt 0) |
tigger, Here is a thread from ages ago - I would say that the figures wont have changed dramatically. Google - pages from the UK [webmasterworld.com] wruk999
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tigger
msg:123479 | 2:40 pm on Jun 4, 2003 (gmt 0) |
cheers gents 4eyes came up with an option from the other posting "I'd host the .co.uk in its own right and create a robots.txt exclusion for Googlebot on the .com. You would then need to get any incoming links for the .com changed to .the .co.uk. " This would seem the best route if I want to get found when people use the UK filter, pain or what if I use this I've got loads of sites to contact and ask the link to changed over to .co.uk :(
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wruk999
msg:123480 | 2:43 pm on Jun 4, 2003 (gmt 0) |
tigger, Not sure but wouldn't a 301 Moved redirect from the .com to .co.uk mean that the incoming links to the .com would automatically be transferred to the .co.uk from the .com by Googlebot? wruk999
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tigger
msg:123481 | 2:51 pm on Jun 4, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Pass anyone else?
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4eyes
msg:123482 | 6:40 pm on Jun 4, 2003 (gmt 0) |
I agree with 4Eyes;)
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tigger
msg:123483 | 6:47 pm on Jun 4, 2003 (gmt 0) |
any ideas on what wruk999 is saying?
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wruk999
msg:123484 | 8:56 pm on Jun 4, 2003 (gmt 0) |
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Absolutely none ;) I was trying to say that if you use a 301 redirect from the .com to the .co.uk, I think that Google realises you just want to use the one domain, and so PageRank and ultimately backlinks are "shared" between the two/passed to the one domain (the .co.uk). I am pretty sure this is the case, as I have read it round here somewhere... wruk999
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zeus
msg:123485 | 9:10 pm on Jun 4, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Well I do have another site with .de and I do get alot of hits with filter, but I think it harder with a co.uk because of the language, but if people want to but something in England they will mostly use filter. zeus
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tigger
msg:123486 | 9:37 am on Jun 5, 2003 (gmt 0) |
cheers wruk999 I've hunted around the forum but can't find anything, I don't have any problems in doing this its just I've paid for some directory listings and I've got over 100 links from high PR sites pointing to the site that were a real pain setting up, explaining why I wanted keyword anchor links etc etc I've got the. co.uk domain I just don't want to upset G
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glengara
msg:123487 | 10:16 am on Jun 5, 2003 (gmt 0) |
In this thread from 2002, [webmasterworld.com...] in the last post Ciml says ".... but I would stick to their advice and use a 301 redirect. This should allow your main URL to get the PageRank from links to both URLs so in the case of switching to a new domain it's much better than using robots.txt"
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tigger
msg:123488 | 10:33 am on Jun 5, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Hi Glen That link is coming back with a 404
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lazerzubb
msg:123489 | 10:37 am on Jun 5, 2003 (gmt 0) |
404 = [webmasterworld.com...]
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glengara
msg:123490 | 10:40 am on Jun 5, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Sorry guys, that's a thread I'd saved, should have checked it was still working.
Maybe Ciml will pick up on this.
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glengara
msg:123491 | 10:46 am on Jun 5, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Dupe content.
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ciml
msg:123492 | 9:09 pm on Jun 5, 2003 (gmt 0) |
I don't have access to my logs at the moment, so I can't update the breakdown I made before. (Anyone else who hosts multiple domains willing to check their aggregate logs?) Certainly, I consider the traffic from Google's UK pages search valuable for some types of Web sites. Firstly, I would check the IP for the .com domain. You can use alltheweb.com to see if other domains on the same server are in Google's UK pages search. If you find a few on the Web search but not the 'pages from the UK' search then it's a problem. If so, then you can either switch hosting provider to get an IP that Google treat as being in the UK, or if you choose to switch to a .co.uk then I would use 301 redirection from the .com. There's always a risk (such as Google changing behaviour), but 301 redirection is probably the least problematic and the most likely to preserve PR.
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