Getting 'Pages from UK' Traffic - a blog redirect issue

[stateless]

My site was originally at WEBSITE.blogspot.com . I thought this looked a little unprofessional, so I moved it to WEBSITE.COM and all was well. It eventually dawned on me though that this was mostly a UK themed site (should've dawned on me earlier), but as the blog is hosted on a .com (via the custom domain feature) and hosted by blogspot (in america of course), I do not feature in "pages from the UK" searches.

Does anyone know how I can address this issue, but also not lose the link juice I've gathered at the previous .COM address?

The only solution I can see is to buy the .CO.UK version of the domain and redirect the traffic there. Only surely this would be quite complicated due to the existing setup? How would I redirect visitors from the existing pages of the .COM site to the new and correlating pages of a .CO.UK site?

[tedster]

If you've got good backlinks to the .com version, there's bound to be a bump in the road if you change the domain to a .co.uk. Many posts here report the issue.

Link juice and PR usually get transferred after a while when 301 redirecting is done in a technically accurate fashion, but it can take weeks or even months sometimes. You can help by contacting your backlink websites and requesting that they change the link.

But you're also likely to lose some of your non-UK traffic permanently by leaving an international TLD and changing to a ccTLD. If you only care about UK traffic, I guess that's not a big deal for you.

There are many good reference threads about the related isses (geo-targeting, changin domains, 301 redirects) in the Hot Topics area [webmasterworld.com], which is always pinned to the top of this forum's index page.