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Does Hosting In UK or US effect Googles Search results?
I basically have a new website i want to promote. It is for UK and .com
I have purchased both the .co.uk & .com domain name.
The .com is for US visitors and the .co.uk is for UK visitors obviously.
From a search engine point of view is it better to host the .co.uk domain on a UK Host and the .com on a US host? Or would it be better to host both domains on same server in either US or UK?
Or would it be even better to just host the .com domain and use a subdomain uk.url.com for the uk version of the site?
Let me know your thoughts :-)
thanks
Allan
P.S. Do you know of any good hosting companies for my needs that you could recommened.
Simple answer: yes
If the content is is substantially different then you would also be ok with the .com on the UK server since I believe only Altavista do US-hosted server results. This includes all US hosted urls not just only .com/net/org, whereas the big 3 combine the .co.uk and the .com together giving the most relevant results for their .com searches.
You can be #1 in both .co.uk and .com without any problem.
However, if your content is very similar expect a possible duplicate penalty since Google will know you are serving the pages from the same IP.
If you want to go down this track then get a US host for your .com but I must say if your site is good enough for the first page you do not need to be there twice even though this has happened to me many times with different sites.
Why? In general the visitor recognises the page immediately and goes no further therefore do ensure that the content is different.
Yahoo! and MSN will serve up similar as well as identical pages which can be embarrassing at times however they seem to be slowly resolving this problem.
