Google.com and Google.co.uk Indexing

Google .com .co.uk search engine uk hosting

[ljgsites]

Greetings SEO Gurus!

My website ranks pretty well in Google. I have a page rank 6. Anyways, the site is registered as a .com however I have the .us and the .co.uk. The .co.uk and .us redirects to the .com. I was wondering if there is a way to get the site to show up in Google.co.uk when a user select the "pages from the UK" option? What I have read is that if you use a hosting firm in the UK it will most likely get indexed. Does anyone know if this is true? Will the redirect mess anything up?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Enjoy your weekend.

[IanTurner]

If you host a .com from a UK IP address you will get into Google.co.uk UK sites. This will not get you into UK search at Yahoo.co.uk or AoL.co.uk though.

[ljgsites]

Thanks Ian!

I wonder...using the redirect from the co.uk to the .com...will the sute appear as .co.uk or .co in google.co.uk? I can use GoDaddy'd mask for that right?

Does anyone know what it takes to get into Yahoo.co.uk and Aol.co.uk?

Thanks much..u folks r awesome!

[IanTurner]

If you mask the .co.uk domain to the .com domain Google will still display the .com in its UK sites only results.

As far as I know the only way to appear in the Yahoo UK only and AOL UK only results is to have a genuine .co.uk site.

[HarryM]

If you host a .com from a UK IP address you will get into Google.co.uk UK sites

But is that always going to be the case?

My site has 17% less pages at co.uk and some cached versions are quite old. It has occurred to me that possibly Google has already stopped indexing .com sites in the UK index. This would bring it into line with other SEs.

As google.co.uk has an on-screen facility to select results from the UK or all the web, there is no incentive for Google to keep .com sites in the UK database.

Having .com sites in both .com and .co.uk databases is a waste of resources. It is also logical to ignore where a site is hosted. The host country and the country of the targetted users are not necessarily the same.

Harry

[ljgsites]

Thanks everyone. This is some great feedback. I guess you cann't just mirror the .com website and host a .co.uk on a UK server? Would google penalize that?

I know there is some crazy stuff going on with GoDaddy right now. However, they provide some interesting tools. They have a mask function which apparently does more then redirect. Say I mask the .com with the .co.uk....it allows you to add meta to the mask. It's suppose to be exclusive to the mask. I can't understand how this can work with google. What happens to the actual meta? (Dos it remain or is it replaced?) Does anyone know anythig about this?

Thanks again for all your help. Everyone of you is great.