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The site is UK hosted with a co.uk domain.
<added>.b.t.w it's got to be a bad thing if you are a UK specific site that ranks lower on the UK filter</added>
have you done a breakdown of where your incoming link are from? I wonder if the UK filter only ranks UK inbound links for the UK filter, or maybe just ranks them higher than non-UK inbounds.
interesting :)
any one done any tests or got some research on this.
Shak
<added>.b.t.w it's got to be a bad thing if you are a UK specific site that ranks lower on the UK filter</added>...or you could say you rank better on the world SERP's and that is a good thing. Or, to look at it another way, you request that both be equal and you end up at number 12 for both the UK and World SERP's.
Before Florida I had a 2,3,4 Listing on Global Google. Post Florida I have a #6 on Global Google and a UK search brings me back on #1 for my index and a funky nustyle dev page that was never submitted or linked in at #2.
I almost get the feeling that the nustyle page has been listed purely because someone liked the design and not because of any ALGO myth.
Interesting yes, appreciated for sure.
theskunk
<added>.b.t.w it's got to be a bad thing if you are a UK specific site that ranks lower on the UK filter</added>
...or you could say you rank better on the world SERP's and that is a good thing. Or, to look at it another way, you request that both be equal and you end up at number 12 for both the UK and World SERP's.
or you could apply some logic to the topic and see its an apparent anomaly to rank lower when the term is filtered for Uk sites given that on the world search that includes the sites that rank above you for the Uk filter has the same sites below you. But if you prefer to go for the standup comic approach then go ahead.
It is no 1 in Google.com for it's primary search term.
It is nowhere in Google.co.uk when I check the UK sites only option.
The site has five links listed by Google. One is business.com, one is Yahoo, regional UK, and the other three are from other sites that I own.
Weird, Huh?
Ross
If I had to bet on why it is so, it would be the fact that it's a .com, not a .co.uk, domain, as I'm sure I've read other similar tales on here before.
I'd wager it has ntohing to do with it being .com rather the content perhaps does not make it clearly UK. My SEO clearly says UK, and often I think about putting a UK flag on the site.
I'd say get refs to UK in there and then google wont need to scratch its head.
I have .com get #1 #2 UK google and #6 US Google
During Florida(I think) by #1 #2 #3 Global listing went right off the scale to #150. At the same time I time I got a #1 on google UK. Fortunately I then got #6 Global.
So I'd say make sure you clearly state you operate in the UK in all the nec bits.
But if you prefer to go for the standup comic approach then go ahead.
Sorry, never realized you only wanted one side of the coin. Do you often throw immature comments at those that are not singing fom your song book?
Sorry, never realized you only wanted one side of the coin. Do you often throw immature comments at those that are not singing fom your song book?
There you go again. Mr standup. Don't give up your day job. :)
You have yet to realize the importance of my original comments have you? I was willing to spell them out, but I don't think I'll waste anymore time on this one. Best of luck one-eye :o)
Kaled.
Don't simply look at your own page, look at the others in the serps - that's what Google does.
A UK based company may not host in the UK. If you don't know for sure that your hosting is UK, then I recommend you check it and know for sure. Don't ask the hosting company as they probably won't say or don't even know. There are other factors involved, however, the main key is the hosting.
It's the same principle as the global data.
Am I right, is this what you're asking, for example: if a listing in dmoz regional has greater influence than dmoz generic in the regional serps?
I can understand how a UK specific site can be filtered to be important if searching with the UK filter on. I dont understand how a Uk specific site gets to important for a global search but not for its actual UK audience. The only way i can see this happening is if the UK filter simply sorts out the UK hosted sites and then only uses UK inbound links for the serps or heavily weights them at least. Otherwise as far as i an see the algo is simply wrong.
I have a site that ranks No. 10 for a German word on google.de or google.ch but No. 1 on google.com. It just doesn't make sense. I would understand if a German word on a German page ranked higher on google.de than on google.com but what is the sense of doing it the other way round?
The only way i can see this happening is if the UK filter simply sorts out the UK hosted sites and then only uses UK inbound links for the serps or heavily weights them at least.
That is correct.
>zgb999
ranks No. 10 for a German word on google.de or google.ch but No. 1 on google.com.
Let's look at relevancy for a moment in the country-specific serps that are filtered based upon the above:
If a page is more relevant for the term, then it's logical that it will rank higher.
If the site is more relevant for the term, then it is likely to rank higher.
Now, look at the same situation regarding pagerank for the site and for the individual pages on the .com
A country-specific page/site may rank higher in the .com serps because it is likely to be more relevant for the term, in that instance, than the other data returned in the serps.
Why?
The following is going to play a part: consider the German links (for example: DMOZ regional and regional directories and sites) and the Global links (for example: DMOZ Global listing and other global directories/sites which won't play such a big role in the pagerank for the regional records), and the individual pagerank of the incoming links (including anchor text for the term).
I hope i've explained myself clearly.
It would seem logical to me for the serps you describe.
The only way to prove it is to carry out the research for the individual term and serps.
Thank you for your reply. I am not sure I am getting your point. When I understood you correctly then you are saying that if most incoming links are from German content / sites then it is more relevant for google.de than for google.com. This would be an interesting point for further research.
But this site has only one link from a PR 4 English site. All other links are from German speaking sites / pages. So I would understand if it ranked better on google.de but I don't understand why it should rank better on google.com.
