A few clients of mine registered .UK.COM domains a year or so ago for new web sites and are no longer indexed by Google. We have another client who has recently registered the same type of domain and cannot get it indexed by Google. It seems Google no longer likes these types of domains. Am I right in thinking that as .UK.COM domains are not real domains as such and are in fact just sub-domains of the domain UK.COM, that Google now looks at them all being from the same web site?
I can see loads still listed in google with that extension. If it OK, maybe you could post an example so we can have a look at the domains that have been dropped.
Are you using google webmaster tools, you can check the indexing. May be worth specifying that they are UK domains just to be sure.
I am assuming that the sites are of good quality with links in.
Are you using google webmaster tools, you can check the indexing. May be worth specifying that they are UK domains just to be sure.
I am assuming that the sites are of good quality with links in.
Google Webasmter tools is another thing - since around two to three months ago all of our sites (bar a couple) no longer verify - it's a nightmare.
I wa under the impression as .UK.COM is not a top level domain Google no longer liked them.
I can still see them too. It may not be the extension, rather the actual websites?
We design all of our sites using XHTML and CSS and have not has this problem before except for .UK.COM sites. We generally post adverts in Gumtree to get sites submitted in a day or so rather than waiting for six weeks by doing a Google submit.
However, looking at the source code I have noticed characters which are not utf-8 compliant and it is then failing a XHTML validation - so hopefully this is the problem.
However, looking at the source code I have noticed characters which are not utf-8 compliant and it is then failing a XHTML validation - so hopefully this is the problem.
I doubt this to be your problem - I don't think Google gives a monkeys whether your code is compliant?
I think there was a post on this a few weeks ago. Someone registered uk.com and so example.uk.com is just a subdomain of that.
I would say that leaves you vulnerable to the owners of uk.com. What happens if they go bust and that domain is sold on? Although maybe thats not how it works? Let us know!
Also, Google have said via their blog they will only display one result from diff subdomains on a results page. Now there are exceptions to this (made for big sites - blogger, ebay, etc) so does anyone know if uk.com is an exception? If not, it just takes one site in that domain to get higher than you and yours drops off the all importatn 1st page .
Cany anyone confirm or deny...?
edit: a quick google suggests 2 results will be shown. Apparently Matt Cutts revealed this but I cant find the reference, soz.
You're right about them being just sub-domains and tht's why I thought they had been dropped or not even indexed. I read the artiucle about two listing in Google for the same domain and thought iut was the problem but I can see loads of these web sites which have been indexed by Google. Strange.
.uk.com domains droped from Google?
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