HuskyPup
msg:4536179 | 2:09 pm on Jan 15, 2013 (gmt 0) |
Is the site on a .co.uk or .com?
All my sites also including .asia, .cn, .eu and .in are hosted in the UK.
My .com, .asia, .cn, .eu and .in have absolutely no problems ranking on Google.com, my .eu no problem with Google.co.uk however my .com has big problems with Google.co.uk to the extent I've duplicated it on a .co.uk and it has now started to rank ok on Google.co.uk.
Google seems to have serious problems with geo-location at times, for instance I have a .com for another Indian company from 1998 and for years Google ranked it globally, after all it is a global supply company, then all of a sudden Google decided to knock it out of the .com SERPs almost altogether and now it only ranks in Google.co.in
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Furthermore when I check keyword rankings the Chinese have mastered the art of ranking the spammiest of domain names and url structures going with both thin and scraped content. I mention this simply because it may not be you at fault...how does your site fare in Bing?
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SlyOldDog
msg:4536180 | 2:24 pm on Jan 15, 2013 (gmt 0) |
Hi. Thanks for your reply. It's currently on .com and it ranks well everywhere but .com competitors hosted in the US seem to have an advantage over our site for local US results. eg. "Chicago Keyword".
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HuskyPup
msg:4536184 | 2:55 pm on Jan 15, 2013 (gmt 0) |
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Yep, I seem to see that a lot however I have no idea just how accurate the results are I see.
I use the Firefox Global extension and it seems to provide similar results to proxy searches however I have no idea how much localised results affect my widgets since many-a-time I have tracked-back referrals yet can't even find myself!
I'm fairly confident that there is an inherent advantage in being a US company hosted in the US but as to how much I have no idea and I don't think that G will ever let us know that!
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SlyOldDog
msg:4536267 | 6:44 pm on Jan 15, 2013 (gmt 0) |
I can tell you how much advantage they have. Enough for me to care about it :)
What I am hoping for was for someone who did this before to give me an idea of how it might affect how google indexes my site.
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