Ranked for .com but not for .co.uk

Why is Google Ignoring My UK site

[Panic_Man]

I have a site purely for UK clients. It is indexed in Google and has a PR6 with 55 backlinks. The second highest site for my main keyword has a PR of 5 and 10 backlinks! When I use the 'pages in the UK' search, it isn't anywhere to be found. The site is hosted on a Germany based server and when I use Google.DE it is right there! Does that mean that Google thinks it's a German site? Does anyone know how to do something about it?

Cheers

Charles

[jimsthoughts]

Does that mean that Google thinks it's a German site?

Yes ...Google looks at where the site is hosted.

Does anyone know how to do something about it?

Yes, host your site in the UK.

[Legin]

Are you you using a .com domain? If so then google has no way of knowing that it is a UK site and will just use the server location as a reference.

[shopgal]

So does google know the difference between US and Canada hosting providers?

[bekyed]

Hmmm not so sure,

We have .co.uk sites hosted in the United States and our sites are in the same place at the top of the serps in both the .co.uk and the .com
This has been the case for a few years now since we moved from low bandwith expensive uk servers.

Bek.

[minstrel]

I've been researching this question, too. I have a .ca site hosted in the US which does pretty well on both google.com and google.ca. I am associated with another site that has a .com extension but is hosted on a Canadian server; it too seems to do well on bot googles.

What I've seen to date suggests that the google.ca listing requires some evidence of "Canadian content" - i.e., either a .ca domain name extension OR a Canadian host.

My question now is would a .com site on a US server make it to google.ca if it contained contact information (on page content) with a Canadian address and phone number?

(substitute .com.uk for .ca as required)

[ppeter]

Take a look at these posts.. should help you out:
[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]

[PCInk]

Google look at the TLD, if it is .co.uk, .uk.com etc... then it thinks you are a UK site. If the area cannot be determined by TLD (such as .com, .net, .org etc...) it looks at the IP address of the host and assumes you are from that country.

[makemetop]

>.uk.com...

Is not a TLD! It is a sub-domain of uk.com - so is treated as a .com if not hosted in the UK.

[jazzx]

this could be a trigger for google to include:

<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-gb">

and: it's not ignored...

hope this helps