International Rankings - two site solution?

[keepontruckin]

Does it makes sense to have two duplicate sites? One .com for the USA market and the other .co.uk for the UK market. Assuming the .com will be hosted on a server in the USA and the Uk site on a UK server. Of course the content will be duplicated since the language is the same. We could change the text on some pages but since most pages are property descriptions provided to us by the property owners those will be the same and that is 95% of the site. We can't seemed to get well ranked for the UK market and it seems Google is going more and more towards localized results.

[mcskoufis]

According to my personal experience it does not matter where your site is hosted at all. It is natural for UK sites to be hosted in US servers as pricing is much cheaper on many occasions.

I'd avoid duplicating content.... I love to hate this as I've been severely slapped in the face during the past couple of years in some projects due to this.

[bode]

I would avoid the duplicate site. I changed my site over to a UK server after ranking poorly in the UK, but very well on .com.

My advice is to keep things as they are, but instead, work to get your site to the top of local business results in the UK.

[Robert Charlton]

Is the site currently a .co.uk or a .com domain?

What localization efforts have you already made?