jdhuk - 8:15 pm on Jun 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

I have the same problem! Non-commercial site is number 1 in google.de, ca, it, but only number 71 in google ru. It is Russian site & I made it for Russian architects. Now they can't find it, but Italian can...Isn't it strange?

Where is it hosted?

How I rank in both UK and web results.

I like to rank well on "pages from the UK" & "the web". My target audience is 99% UK however I am pretty aware only a faction of the average surfer uses the radio button to search for "pages from the UK" still I don't want to loose that small fraction however small it may be ;-)

So its pretty straight forward. I use a .co.uk domain HOSTED IN THE UK as this will in most cases out weigh the .com domains in the "pages from the UK" of course along side a host of other things IE optimization, link popularity blah blah blah.

Now in the "the web" results my task is a little more difficult because I have to fight against the .com domains which will out weigh the .co.uk domains. How does one do this? It is straight forward link popularity.

Now I have the best of both worlds there's nothing more to this (for people with UK ranking issues) then hosting in the UK with preferably a .co.uk domain and link popularity to beat the .com's in the world results.

Pretty basic stuff really.