co.uk and .com - are they different?

.co.uk and .com for same site, question.

[layer8]

If a site with a .com and PR of 6/10 wants to promote their .co.uk with PR of 4/10 would this be allowed as they point to the same site?

Would this be classed as a mirror site or am I o.k. to put effort into boosting rankings on the .co.uk?

[Terrier]

I would say dont do it, original content on both OK. Why do you need both anyway.

[DaveN]

unless you a geo targeting on the .com .co.uk i won't do it and yes it would be seen as a mirror.

you are also making twice as much work for yourself as well, an old friend and client now used to promote a .com and .co.uk mirrored most of the SE's never really did anything apart of emerge the two together, but in G the guy had loads of problems.

similar to yourself .com was PR5 and the .co.uk pr4 the first thing i did was get everyone linking to the .co.uk to relink to the .com (nobody tends to give two links to two sites just because they a .com and .co.uk) this by itself caused the .com to go PR6, we then banned the robots on the co.uk and used to to measure our ROI on the magazine advertising he was running.

Unless you can make then into two totally different sites don't bother imo.

DaveN

[Terrier]

Even geo Targeting with a .com or a .co.uk hosted in the UK you can compete just fine in the .com serps. No need for two sites IMHO.

[layer8]

thanks for the update.

The client is a big customer and they have asked specifically to promote the .co.uk

do you think by getting inbound links it would boost PR on the .co.uk? Why would they see it as a mirror site if its the same content -i.e. not mirrored

[Terrier]

Mirror and duplicate content both are bad news. Why not put robots exclusion on the .co.uk and use adwords. If the .com is hosted in the UK it would appear in UK specific serps anyway.

[DaveN]

you would trip the dupe content filters i guess,

Would you promote under different keywords?

DaveN

[makemetop]

>If the .com is hosted in the UK it would appear in UK specific serps anyway.

Only on Google - not on Yahoo, AOL and other Google (or other DB) powered SEs.

Block the .com and promote the .co.uk (IMHO).

[layer8]

They will be the same keywords.

The .co.uk and the .com both forward to the same IP address so from a site content point of view they are not identical - they are the same (not duplicates, not replicants etc).

Not sure where the server is located, i'll have a look but its probably located in the US or accessed via a an ISP gateway in US.

Maybe this is why they want to promote just co.uk for uk serps.