Getting a .com listed in google UK

UK site does just fine in google.com listings, doesnt show in UK listings

[Silent_Bob]

One of my sites has finally been deep crawled and is doing pretty well now in the serps. It is even showing up in the top 5 for some of my keywords - although it still has a PR of 0 despite coming above pr 4 and 5 sites (?). However, this UK site does not appear when searching google uk and selecting the 'search UK pages only' option.

I presume this must be because my webhost - one and one - appear to be based in germany. However, I don't see many .com's listed in the 'uk only serps' for any of my keywords.

I am going to be transferring my site to a UK server sometime before christmas, so I'm hoping that it should start showing in the UK serps then. Is there any other way I can get it to appear there before then? Is there a meta tag I can use or some other trick?

I've put UK in the title, keywords and description tags and in several location on each page now to see if google clocks that but I really have no idea how google decides what is UK relevant and what isn't. I do have my domain name as a .co.uk as well as a .com but presume that submitting it to google would be pointless as it would be duplicate content and also has no links pointing to it. Any help and suggestions would be much appreciated guys. Cheers.

[DerekH]

>>Is there a meta tag I can use or some other trick?

Trick?
Trick google?

You may have inadvertantly answered your question yourself there...

Good luck!
DerekH

[DerekH]

Silent_Bob wrote
>>I do have my domain name as a .co.uk as well as a .com but presume that submitting it to google would be pointless as it would be duplicate content and also has no links pointing to it. <<

That's surely your answer - if you have no links pointing to the .co.uk, you simply aren't going to make the index. Full stop.
No endorsement, no listing.

You might consider producing a UK subsection to your site and hosting that on an .co.uk address, or you might do, as I have done - put the whole content on a .co.uk address and then find that it's listed on google.co.uk and google.com - sorted...

DerelH