Excluded from UK serps

A .com site hosted in the UK

[HarryM]

I have a .com site hosted in the UK. Domain name is also registered in the UK.

Searching for www.mysite.com in search.msn.com shows about 60% of my pages, but search.msn.co.uk returns none. Is this typical? Or do I have a specific problem?

(FYI Google shows 100% of pages in google.com and google.co.uk, and I get traffic from all over the world. Similarly with Yahoo.)

[cleanup]

Join the club. MSN are slow learners. There are a number of threads here about MSNs geo targetting and local MSN that have even worse results than the main MSN.com.

[Nikke]

Are you really sure that your hosting company really has the servers located in UK?

I have very different, but quite as frustrating experiences, with a .com hosted in Sweden. The site language is English and 60% of the sites visitors come from the US while 20% come from the UK.

For the main two-word keyword combo I get these results:

search.msn.se: #1 and #2
search.msn.co.uk: #6
search.msn.com: #13

It certainly looks as if the longer the distance from the local search.msn site and the server, the further down in the SERPs.

Your experience quite contradicts any results I get...

[HarryM]

Nikke,

Yes, I am definitely hosted in the UK.

[mfishy]

My experience is the opposite. I find that anything hosted in the uk ranks in the uk and anything hosted in teh US ranks in US

[HarryM]

In msn.com a search on a unique keyword combination shows two of my pages as No 1 and No 2. The same search on msn.co.uk lists neither of the pages irespective of whether I check or un-check "only from the UK".

A search on www.mydomain.com in msn.com returns most of my pages. So too does a search in msn.co.uk with "only from the UK" un-checked. But with it checked MSN has no record of the site.

Bottom line is I get no MSN traffic from the UK, and I am not sure I can do anything about it.