can I achieve UK ranking using 301 redirect?

[king2163]

I have a website www.a.com. i have very good Google ranking of website a.com on www.google.com. I want good ranking on www.google.co.uk. At the start, website was hosted at US server. For UK only result I had shifted the website at UK server and now it is giving UK only result but have low ranking on WWW.google.co.uk in comparison to www.google.com.

I am thinking to use 301 redirect to redirect www.a.com to my new domain www.b.co.uk. is it ok?

can I get good UK result like US without loosing my any ranking?

Please help.

[tedster]

A lot of what we know about geo-targeting on Google can be found in our Hot Topics area [webmasterworld.com], which is always pinned to the top of this forum's index page.

-- LOCAL SEARCH --
Multi-language Sites [webmasterworld.com] -and geolocation
Country TLDs [webmasterworld.com] - ranking and local domain extensions
Tell Google Your Site Location [webmasterworld.com] - with Webmaster Tools

If I were forced to predict, however, I would think that you're probably going to lose at least some US rankings by going with your approach.