www.aol.co.uk
www.msn.co.uk
www.freeserve.com
www.btopenworld.com
www.tiscali.co.uk
www.ntl.com
www.yahoo.co.uk
www.looksmart.co.uk
www.ukplus.com
www.google.co.uk
www.lycos.co.uk
www.altavista.co.uk
www.mirago.co.uk
Which of these se's:
- allow sites presenting non-uk-specific subjects
- have uk-specific databases and submission?
I'm trying to determine how best to plan promoting sites that present mostly French companies and products that are aimed at an international market. Yes, they all have English-language versions.
Many thanks for any help!!
The main problem is these and others don't show domains with anything other than .co.uk and .com (exceptions) in the SERPs: They are filtered out, almost without exception.
It's not the language, it's the domain. It seem fairly pointless submitting to a directory that may end up filtering your results out.
My recommendation would be to have a .co.uk or .com to get to the UK market.
The main services from the list are:
www.yahoo.co.uk
www.looksmart.co.uk
www.ukplus.com
www.google.co.uk
www.lycos.co.uk
www.altavista.co.uk
www.mirago.co.uk
The others use one of: Google, Ink, Overture, Espotting and Alltheweb data.
I hope this helps.
It sure does! :)
Most of the domains I manage are indeed .com so that won't be a problem.
So yahoo, looksmart, google, lycos, altavista and mirago all use a different database for their uk sites, with separate submissions from their "home" .com sites?
Many thanks!!!
Not necessarily different db - Google's option in .co.uk is uk sites from the main db. Lycos has a directory and uses Alltheweb DB. Altavista was transitioning to one big db, so, if you're in the main db you should be ok.
I'd recommend you get as many UK directory links as that will help the search engines understand that your site is not purely a .com (USA) website.
hm, interesting point. I'll try with a couple of sites, and see what trafic that brings in - many thanks again!
