Higher listing on googl.com - but am a UK site and need to get ranked on Google.co.uk

**byinstinct** · 10-02-09

Hi - I have a site which ranks well on plenty of keyphrases on Google.com, but has made very little impact on Google.co.uk.

THis is despite the fact that the site is served from the UK.

The site is a .com, but I have set the region in Google analytics to the UK as well.

IS there anything else I can do? (I cannot use the .co.uk site)

You would have thougt that given the fact the IP / Server is UK based that .co.uk would at least be equal - but the listigs are so much poorer...

Thanks in advance!

**roshaoar** · 10-02-09

Usually this takes a few weeks or months before setting it to uk actually filters through - 6 months isn't an unreasonable time. But what you should also do to climb the .co.uk rankings is both link to and be linked from .co.uk sites and also link to and be linked from UK hosted sites.

**sgpratley** · 16-02-09

Sign up top Google Webmaster Tools, you need to add a file or a meta tag to verify you own the site, then set the site as being aimed at a UK audience.

UK / US traffic It's a bit of an either or until your site gets really huge.
If you're after globa traffic just be happy with the .com rankings

**trooperbill** · 18-02-09

couple of things,

make sure you're using all the content type and language codes for GB English

secondly get links to your site from .co.uk domains and british sites

that'll sort you right out

**byinstinct** · 19-02-09

Originally Posted by trooperbill

couple of things,

make sure you're using all the content type and language codes for GB English

secondly get links to your site from .co.uk domains and british sites

that'll sort you right out

Thanks - the tags appear as follows:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb" />

Is that correct?

Regards

**Jack Russell** · 19-02-09

Originally Posted by byinstinct

Hi - I have a site which ranks well on plenty of keyphrases on Google.com, but has made very little impact on Google.co.uk.

THis is despite the fact that the site is served from the UK.

The site is a .com, but I have set the region in Google analytics to the UK as well.

IS there anything else I can do? (I cannot use the .co.uk site)

You would have thougt that given the fact the IP / Server is UK based that .co.uk would at least be equal - but the listigs are so much poorer...

Thanks in advance!

You need good quality backlinks from UK hosted websites.

**trooperbill** · 19-02-09

Originally Posted by byinstinct

Thanks - the tags appear as follows:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb" />

Is that correct?

Regards

yeah also needs

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SCHEMA/xhtml11.xsd"

xml:lang="en" >

but mainly links to the site from UK sites!!!!!