UK Site shows up at Google.com but not at Google.co.uk

despite having .uk.co domain extension?

[vmaster]

My UK based site, with the domain extension .uk.co fares well at Google.com, but doesn't show up at Google.co.uk at all ! No doubt the site is hosted in the US, but the domain and contents are both UK specific. Is there any any to get the site included under the UK results too.

[NFFC]

.co is a columbian domain, you should get listed at Google UK if you move hosting to the UK.

[cornwall]

My UK based site, with the domain extension .uk.co

.co is a columbian domain

I suspect the questioner just put in a typo ".uk.co" instead of what they really meant ".co.uk" which is the UK domain extension.

If Vmaster puts the domain in their profile, we can (probably) give some thoughts on the problem

[George]

vmaster,
I have .co.uk sites hosted in the US, simply because it is cheaper. Bear in mind that US hosted sites will not load as quickly for UK visitors though. All my sites are listed in the google.co.uk, this is not currently a barrier on its own. (Grief knows what they will do next month!);)
as NFFC says, host in the UK, and it will be better though.

George

[Shakil]

if we can get clarification whether the domain is .uk.co or .co.uk then it would be a lot easier to explain.

i agree with the above, a.co.uk site hosted in the states has never been a problem for us.

a uk.co :) well thats a different story, which Bob Fox can answer

Shak

[shady]

I have all my .co.uk sites hosted in the US and they all appear on google.co.uk

[ciml]

Yep, you need a UK IP or a .uk domain to be in the UK search.

The recent travel phrase changes are different, though. It seems that a .uk domain doesn't help if you are lower in the results for English language interface users.

[vmaster]

Went for one of the new .uk.co domain extensions, thinking they might be the next craze after the exhausted conventional .co.uk, not realising they was essentially Columbian ... ! Besides, how come Google.co.uk shows an Indian .com site amongst the results for my search term?

[cornwall]

Went for one of the new .uk.co domain extensions

I stand corrected, never heard of this Colombian extension before. Having done a search I see the sort of advertising being used is not exactly transparent in telling the prospective user what ".uk.co" actually is.

At the risk of this being against TOS, I quote from one site pushing the extension - I think it is of interest to the forum. Does not immediately give me the feeling that I want to buy one though:(

<snip>Sorry for the edit

[edited by: NFFC at 7:43 pm (utc) on Oct. 17, 2002]
[edit reason] As per TOS [/edit]

[NFFC]

>thinking they might be the next craze after the exhausted conventional .co.uk

It gets worse. They are not what I would consider "real" domains, just sub-domains. There *may* be a case to register one for the few typos but as the main "domain" [imho] a non-starter.Not that you can ever own a domain but these types are at the lowest rung of the ownership ladder.

[ciml]

> how come Google.co.uk shows an Indian .com site amongst the results for my search term?

I guess that it's hosted in the UK?

Note that when I write "in the UK", I mean "in the UK according to Google". They are believed to use a number of sources for geolocation and have a very good success rate (not that the subject matter of a site should be inferred from IP location...)