My site - Yahoo.com Great!, Yahoo.co.uk Rubbish! - Why?

[puerto]

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Hi,

I did a search today on Yahoo.com on several of my keywords and was overjoyed to find my site, widget.com at no.2. However, when I use the search box on Yahoo.co.uk I am nowhere. The same seems to be true of Google I am no.72 on Google.com, but nowhere on Google.co.uk.

The problem is my site is very UK based and most of my potential customers will be searching on the .co.uk versions.

I am from the UK myself and I am using 1&1 hosting which I believe is in the UK, so could anyone please tell me what is happening?

Many thanks

Simon

[Fraser]

using 1&1 hosting which I believe is in the UK

I think this may not be true - maybe others can confirm but I thought the servers were based somewhere in Europe but not in the UK.

[drooper]

Germany. 1&1 suck.

Heres a handy IP or domain to country code thingy
> http://www.activetarget.com/livedemo.asp

[dbm44]

1 and 1 servers are hosted in Germany I believe and so if your site domain is .com rather than .co.uk you will probably rank better on Yahoo.com than on Yahoo.co.uk. Goggle does the same

[Bezza]

Yep, see note from Google below:

"Searches that are restricted to a country domain should only return sites that are physically hosted in that country, regardless of the extension. If you would like your site or others in the UK to be returned in a 'UK sites only' search, we recommend that you have the site hosted in that country. This should make it more likely that your site will return in a search for pages from that country.

If your site is currently hosted in the correct country and you feel that Google is incorrectly detecting your site's location, please visit http://services.google.com/georeport/ to report the error. In your report, please use the 'Comments' section to let us know the IP address of your website, as well as where the website is physically located.


Regards,
The Google Team"

[puerto]

Oh s***!

Any ideas how I can resolve this. If I move my site to a UK host would it not affect the rankings I am getting on Yahoo.com and Google.com and would I basically have to resubmit my pages and start all over again?.

I own a .co.uk version of my site domain, is there anything I can do with that, ie. redirect the .com to the co.uk, would that sort out the problem?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Simon

[Mogga]

So should a .co.uk be hosted in the UK?

[Ballswinger]

Would be nice if there was a little bit of code you could insert so that the engines recognise that your site is UK based.

Any techies know of any?

[andy2004]

I have a site with the same sort of results
it is a .co.uk and it is hosted in the UK, yet 10x more pages indexed by yahoo.com than yahoo.co.uk

I too would love to know why this is

[mibut]

Although I have not tried it yet , you can now change DNS with 1&1.