Whitey - 2:17 am on Jul 5, 2008 (gmt 0)

How do site: and site:/ numbers compare for the two domains on 'the web' and 'sites in UK'? Is the complete .com visible in the UK part or just a single page

I've not heard of these various commands, only the site: command . Can you explain ?

On Google.co.uk [ uk filter on ]

site:www.outsite.co.uk 45900 results
site:/oursite.co.uk 5780 results
site:oursite.co.uk 46000 results
site:oursite.co.uk/* 5780 results

Unbelievable .... look at this for .COM in Google.co.uk [ uk filter on ]

site:/oursite.com 59 results
site:www.oursite.com 4590 results

Is Google having serious probs?

Chief suspects :
- handling of redirects
- geo targeting
- duplicate content filters

Anything else ?

google.com [ global search ]

site:/oursite.com 10 results
site:www.oursite.com 39500 results
site:www.outsite.com/* 3930 results

Why the big differences and surely this says something about google.co.uk being up the creek.

btw - i just repeat we have a recent -40 / 50 / 60 penalty on these sites which occurred early May - factors may no be compounding

[edited by: tedster at 2:58 am (utc) on July 5, 2008]
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