Higher in .com than in .co.uk

Well kind of...

[lazycat]

I can understand why a site would rank higher in google.co.uk than in google.com - more competition etc. in .com but this is puzzling me a little.

I have been following a few of my keywords and I am ranked around 2/3 for most of my main ones in google.co.uk as opposed to around 6-20 in google.com. No surprise there.

However, the sites ranked ABOVE me in positions 1 and 2 in .co.uk are ranked well BELOW me in .com for the same search phrase!

How does that work and is anyone else seeing anything like this?

[jamsy]

Yes i saw exactly the same last week and was quite surprised. However unfortunatley I can not comment on this weeks rankings since the site was dropped on saturday - after years at the top - no idea what caused this but the only thing i can think of is the "over optimisation penalty"

[hughie]

I have the same on a site of mine, I guessed that my site had more worldwide links and fewer UK links than my competitor.

ta,
hughie