Comments on: Google; “I don’t get it!” – .Com Vs .Co.Uk

By: Gav

Gav — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:52:57 +0000

In short deepanshu, yeah you’re right theere is some preference for country specific domain for searches performed within that country.

By: deepanshu

deepanshu — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:42:33 +0000

nice post, whether country specific domain not perform well in other countries or it will get some preference in its own country?

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:05:12 +0000

Too be honest – I’m a bigger fan of Dogpile than Google. They support charitable causes and work with all independent search providers to give a good mix of results.

People are too lazy when it comes to search and want it all to be laid out for them in one engine. Problem is, Google, MSN and Yahoo all pick what shows up where.

Research is meant to be RESEARCH – so look around for solid results.

BTW – Dogpile.com just launched a new site called http://www.DoGreatGood.com – and their donating a portion of there revenue to Petfinder and the ASPCA.

Great that theres a way we can help dog adoption programs at no cost.

By: Jim Kane

Jim Kane — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:08:35 +0000

You know what I HATE? Getting as many – or more UK sites when I’m NOT looking for UK stuff! I’m going back to Dogpile.com where searches are in the US…NOT UK.

By: website design

website design — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:57:17 +0000

A good post Lisa. I have never see this type of problem. I will experiment this and let you know if I come up with any solution.

By: chance

chance — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:04:36 +0000

Yes – I am he – named chance from said Blackberry SEO (actually I am not sure why I post from that website as it’s just a project I did not get time for).

As for insulting you(that really was not intended). I did post a nice comment for you but seems it did not make it. One to many margaritas in the sun I am afraid.

I had wrote a longer more detailed post here but it got lost when I forgot my email address and I could not be bothered writing it all again..

good enough?

By: Camilla

Camilla — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:40:57 +0000

I get them 1st and 2nd through your link too Andy. We’ve had this problem at work quite often – with clients competing for quite hefty phrases being on page one on one computer in the office and page two on another computer! We put it down to different data centres being accessed for the results (although we’ve never really researched this), but it certainly makes things frustrating when a client is seeing a worse result than us.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:17:29 +0000

I currently have you 5th and 6th
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=getitornot&pws=0&gl=UK

With your search operators I get 1st and 2nd

The comment system removed what I mentioned about the footer [getitornot] would be better [ getitornot ]

You could also add some more pages to the site with legal formalities, with live links only from the sitemap, cycling juice from them only to the home page

By: Lisa Ditlefsen

Lisa Ditlefsen — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:51:14 +0000

Hey Andy, thanks for leaving a comment =)

Just checked the Google UK and we are still 1st and 2nd, nearly stopped breathing So all is good.

And yep have “declared” UK site via websmaster tools, one of the first things i did.

Thanks so much for the heads up on the 404s, have fixed it now.

cheers!

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:53:19 +0000

It seems to have switched again, not sure if the campaign is still running.

Also there are 404 problems

http://www.getitornot.co.uk/getitornot/www.cwjobs.co.uk/?DCMP=A_BA_B1_GION_2

Other little things…

Try adding a space before question marks getitornot ?

Add spaces to in both footers

Avoid more than 1 followed external link per page

Cycle the juice

Might be stating the obvious, but I didn’t see webmaster tools mentioned (declare uk site)