Pages from the (Country) search

What works?

[McMohan]

Don't know if it has been discussed before, for I didn't find one.

When you are searching in say google.co.uk, and select "pages from the UK" radio button, what works in serving up the results? One factor that I know of is domains with .co.uk for the above example. Any ideas what other factors are in play here?

Thanks

Mc

[SofterLogic UK]

My evidence is that a .co.uk without significant conflicting onpage evidence does it.

Likewise, a .com will show if it's on UK servers and no conflicting onpage evidence.

[OptiRex]

McMohan - Quite simply this is being discussed at this very moment here:

[webmasterworld.com...]

[McMohan]

OptiRex, thanks for pointing me to the thread.
But I feel, there it is being discussed about the factors in play while ranking in the default search in various Google country domains (co.uk, .de, co.jp etc), not about the "Pages from the (Country)" radio button option.

Likewise, a .com will show if it's on UK servers and no conflicting onpage evidence.

What will be the conflicting onpage evidence? A UK company may have its operations worldwide and chose to name the countries where it has business in.

BTW, any ideas what % of people use the "Pages from the (Country)" radio button option? I never used them for anything serios.

Mc

[OptiRex]

Hi McMohan

I'm not too sure what your question is now?

Are you asking how to optimise pages for a specific country or what are the determining factors which displays those results?

Either way the results depend on the optimisation, location of server, the language the pages are written in etc.

What is it you are trying to do?

I have seen the country stats somewhere but darned if I can find them right now!

[Nikke]

I don't have any sites hosted in the UK, but I know of .nu, .fi, .com, .info, .org, and .dk sites showing up when searching for Site from Sweden on Google.se.
An .se site hosted in Denmark doesn's show up on google.se when this option is selected, but it shows up on google.dk.

I see some Google referrals using this option, but it is really stupid in my opinion.

It's like showing PR in the Google toolbar. Just a stunt because they can, and want to show the likes of us that they can.

[arthurdaley]

Does anyone have any reason to believe that a .co.uk site hosted on US servers might fair worse in the google.co.uk 'Search only UK sites' SERPs than if it were hosted in the UK?

[OptiRex]

arthurdaley - Seems as though we're getting into a repeat circle this week!

To be absolutely sure host in the UK and it does not matter whether you have a .com or .co.uk although .co.uk may suggest a little more that you are from the UK.

More can be read here with different people's experiences:

[webmasterworld.com...]

Why risk it? If you want to know where you can get competitively-priced UK hosting, sticky me.