Crazy pages in the index for me -- since BigDaddy

BidDaddy has played havoc with my website.....

[hjackson]

Up until February I was enjoying a reasonably busy website. From the start of Feb I have seen my visits drop to about 5% of what it was before.

This alarmed me somewhat so I went off in search of the reason. I found most of what I needed to know on this forum and came to the conclusion that it is just a waiting game until google shakes itself out and corrects everything. Or at least this is what I am hoping.

Anyway, enough history.

When people on here talk about pages in the main index I am assuming they mean that, when the search for

"www.domainname.co.uk"

the count can be found on the top right hand corner of the results. If this is the case I have the following questions.

I have a ".co.uk" domain that has lost thousands of pages from that index count. I have always been using the ".co.uk" except for a short period where I decided to change to a ".com" because most of what I do is not UK specific. After suffering a massive drop in hits after the name change I changed it back to ".co.uk". This was a hard lesson ie don't change your domain name.

This was fine until today. I decided to check:

"www.domainname.com"

string in google and the count is in excess of 200 million. This is a fairly wild exageration of home many pages I actually have but it made me wonder if google thinks that I am a ".com" not a ".co.uk". Since I can only see 10 pages in the results are these pages in the suplimental index?

The ".co.uk" site has approximately 30000 pages in the main index which is a massive drop from what should be in there. If google is seeing more of my ".com" pages than my .co.uk (even though they are in the sup index) pages would now be a good time to change the name, take the hit over the next month or two in the hope that it would be corrected shortly?

I have recently been redirecting all ".com" traffic to the ".co.uk" site but I am seriously considering that I should really be doing this the other way around.

Any thoughts appreciated.

[Vadim]

It depends on the country that you target. If you target UK you are OK. If you target US, it is probably would be better to redirect to com.

However the end part of the domain name is only one of the factors that influence Geo target. Other are links, language, IP, physical location, specific words etc. Therefore only you may decide whether the better Geo target overweight the risk to temporarily loose high SERP.

Vadim.