Site visible for all web searches but not uk only

When restricting search to region, index pages disappear

[UK_Web_Guy]

Anybody else seeing the same thing?

Do a search for a phrase on google.co.uk (search the web) and the index page of the site appears in the serps.

However, check "pages from the UK" box and search again- the index page doesn't rank.

Sub pages do rank further down the SERPS, but index nowhere to be seen?

Anyone else see this in the UK or any other country.

It is as if specifying a region on searches is knocking some sites index pages out of play?

[ncsuk]

Search the web in Google UK is basically like going to Google Com.

Some stuff isnt there for obvious reasons.

[Receptional Andy]

My theory (based on some very similar experiences with Google UK) is this:

You are not using a UK-specific TLD (e.g. .co.uk) and Google has identified your web server/hosting company as being located outside the UK (and they get this wrong frequently).

I've had the same with a couple of sites - for some reason Google keeps a few inner pages lower down in the serps even though it shouldn't really return the site at all if it doesn't think it's in the UK. I don't know why this is.

[UK_Web_Guy]

This is something new with the recent index changes.

Sorry - should have specified this at first.

Site is and always has been hosted in the UK and is a .co.uk

[HenryUK]

not an explanation but I thought I would throw my related experience into the mix.

On google.co.uk, UK sites only for a particular keyphrase I have the number one slot.

On google.com, until recently I had a page #1 slot for the same keyphrase, behind a number of non-UK sites - precisely what you would expect.

After the recent changes I still have the UK #1 slot but I am not in the top 200 on .com, and many of the sites that rank below mine on UK are in that top 200 (including one or two of my other smaller sites).

So I am getting it the other way round!

my expectation is that this will shake out over time... hoping that it does so in my favour...

[UK_Web_Guy]

HenryUK

Yes, sounds like you are experiencing the problem in reverse.

You would expect the top 10 uk results of a .com (or "the web" search option on .co.uk) to be the top 10 sites on a "pages from the UK" search for the same key phrase.

This has generally been the case for as long as I can remember and has only changed with this "update".

Hopefully these things will be ironed out as the new index gets rolled out.

It looks like there may be some sort of regional searching glitches at the moment

[MHes]

Yup, seeing the same as you guys.

Often .co.uk (worldwide) results are totally unique from all the other centers, and then a few minutes later they match one of the centers. The 'relevancy' of results is poor.... seems like we are a long way off yet... sigh

Anybody seen fresh bot?

[UK_Web_Guy]

Googleguy

Know your busy and that you can't get to see all posts in this forum -

but if you do manage to see this one - are you aware of this issue on alot of the datacentres?

[swones]

Add me to the list to. Always had a top 10 place on google.co.uk for UK only searches, since this update I've vanished, still rank well in non-UK only searches.

I should also point out that although my main domain is a .com I have the .co.uk 301 to it and It's hosted in the UK on a UK IP range, it's been set up like that for months and months now without problems until this update.

Simon.

[swones]

Receptional Andy

You say that google frequently guess wrongly if a site is uk based or not, is there a known best course of action to get it corrected? I realise that this may just be a passing glitch, but if it's not then I'd like to get listed for UK searches again as although our site does a lot of international business our best conversions are from UK visitors.

Simon.