Cached pages on Google.co.uk versus Google.com

[wickedtickles]

Hi
I have a site that is a few years old and am trying to figure out why its not doing so well anymore. i have noticed that google.co.uk have not cached any pages at all, but googl.com has. how do i 'fix' this problem, and do you think it will help?
many thanks

[tedster]

Hello wickedtickles, and welcome to the forum.

Are you asking about the actul "Cached" urls -- the ones that show in the search results as a link next to "Similar pages"? Or do you mean the number of indexed pages, as show by a site: operator query?

[wickedtickles]

hi
Thanks for replying
I am refferring to the cached link that shows in the search results, next to "similar pages' thanks

[anand84]

Does it really happen that Google caches the same page once with .co.uk and once more with .com? I have always had only one bot crawl from Google and that has always been from Mountain View!

[wickedtickles]

I have no idea!, I would have thought being a .co.uk site, google .co.uk would have cached, however i have products that have been cached on google.com and can be found ranking very high on specific product title, however switch to google.co.uk and that same page isnt even cached, not ranked ! i dont understand

[simonuk]

Is the site hosted in the UK?

[wickedtickles]

it has a .co.uk but the hosting is in US (SERVINT)

[anand84]

That could be an issue. Google would see your website as a US website since it is hosted in an American server.

Wonder which engineer in Google came up with this rather dumb idea, but that is how it works, as far as I know.

To add further, I am not sure if .co.uk on your domain name would be given its due..Ever since websites like del.icio.us came up, the TLD has become more of convenience rather than pertaining to any particular geography..

[wickedtickles]

i thought this may be an issue, but i do have pages that are cached on google.co.uk, which works against that theory! any other ideas,
thanks for your help so far

[simonuk]

The US hosting will be a big cause of problems for you because Google won't be clear which you are. A lot of firms buy up all domain names relating to their company so even though they have the UK domain they may be USA based.

If you're saying that some pages are cached I'm guessing it was either originally on a UK server or some other event has happened.

You do get a lot more weight being hosted in the country of origin so I would consider a transfer to a UK server anyway.

[wickedtickles]

great stuff, many thanks i will give that a try, will i need to do anything else to inform google of the change or will this just happen?

[rainborick]

Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLD) are always considered to have a geo-location in the indicated country regardless of any other factors by all of the major search engines. That's why, for example, you can't change the Geographic Target in the Webmaster Tools console on ccTLDs.