Google index .co.uk vs .com

[byinstinct]

Can anyone provide any information or pointers on the fundamental difference between these 2 indexes’ or any information about working with the different listings? I wasn’t even sure they were different until I noticed massive differences in my site(s) ranking between the 2 domains.

I have a site that is very high (top 20) on the natural listings on the .com but terrible on the .co.uk (over 200), even when searching the entire web. I have set the target country as UK in the webmaster tools but still on joy.

Any advice would be appreciated

Mark

[DioBach]

Are you hosting in the UK or the USA, if it's a .com and ranking well in google.com, moving it to the UK should help the UK listings as well.

[byinstinct]

Its hosted in the UK and the domain is a .com

[DioBach]

In that case, you'd need to strive to get more links from UK specific sites, both hosted in the UK and with UK content. Is there lots of UK relevant content on the site?

[Renners]

Personally, I suspect its a duplicate site issue, especially if you say the .com is ranked better for UK than the .co.uk.

Basically Google thinks one site is a copy of the other and demotes the copied site.

Regards,
Renners

[DioBach]

Originally Posted by Renners Personally, I suspect its a duplicate site issue, especially if you say the .com is ranked better for UK than the .co.uk. Basically Google thinks one site is a copy of the other and demotes the copied site. Regards, Renners

I think if you reread you'll note he means the co.uk and com being referred to are the different Google sites, not two versions of the site.

[byinstinct]

Thats correct its only 1 site on 1 domain a .com, although I do get allot of traffic and other sites linking to me from US. So I take you point and will look in getting back links from UK based sites.

The site is pretty much all UK content.

I just woundered if there was anything specific (and hopefully quick) I could do make an improvement on the UK side

Thanks Again