.com domain in UK searches ?

[mrix]

Hello all, for some time now I have had a .com domain but wish it to show up in UK searches etc, At the moment my website hosting is hosted in the USA, from reading many search engines like Google tend to go by country ip for the listing what are your views on this?
Also I am wondering if this host has the option for mod re-right etc?
thanks for any help
mrix

[eUKhost.com]

Hello Mrix,

What you have heard is right incase of .com domains. .co.uk domains are categorized as UK based in search engines but .com domains get categorized only if you host on UK based servers.

Our servers are based in UK ( London ) so you will see improvement in your rankings once you move your website hosting on our servers.

[nams]

Also I have read that you should mention "UK" somewhere in your title tag as various engines then recognise your website hosting as UK content even though it may end in .com etc

[eUKhost.com]

That would benefit only if people search for some keyphrase that includes UK. As pper my knowledge actual rankings improve only if you the website hosting is hosted in UK.

It should not make much problem to add a extra 2 character word as many people search for different things by adding UK in their search keyphrase.

[nams]

I only refer to some engines/directories would not let me submit my website hosting as UK was not detected in the title. Also play.com use it to the same effect. It can only be a good thing!

[mrix]

I have since signed up with EUKHOSTS and guess what my website hosting within just a few days ended up in UK searches thats a .com domain in uk searches so its a fact a .com UK hosted with UK Hosts will allow you to get in those UK searches.
It can only be good
Cheers all
mrix

[eUKhost.com]

Good to hear that you are happy with the results. Speed and uptime will help you to bring further improvements in your rankings. You can read tutorials we have in our blog as those tutorials have helped many customers to improve their search engine rankings for related keywords.

[Latona]

Yes, it is surprising that search engines are still relying on the host location to determine what they consider a related country (in the case of .com).

I have a hobby website hosting and I had to use a US based host for it as I knew the majority of people searching for the content for that website hosting would have been based in the USA. It was the primary reason for choosing US hosting - however, I have noticed there is a severe lack of quality UK hosting available that has any customer service.

This is why I am at eukhost now - just trying to decide which option to go for.

Anyway, I will have a .com and the equivalent .co.uk - registered both as I intend it to be a brand name in time and for that, the .com would be more or less essential to obtain even though the initial audience will be UK focussed. The .com is the domain name people still have most trust in and for branding purposes - if it is available then purchasing it would be the wisest thing possible (as if it built up any reputation, a domain squatter would quickly seize on the .com version).

[younesbouazza]

Hi, how are you? What you have heard is right, basically .co.uk domains are always categorized as UK based in search engines whereas .com, .net and those are only categorized if you host on uk based servers! Besides, when you sign up with eukhost you will be satisfied and be alot happier since the servers are based in London UK you shoud be by far satisfied!

Best Regards

Younes

[unplugged]

Some search engines can use the meta tags as well im not sure about google though.

[younesbouazza]

Hi, to answer your question yes Google and yahoo both do use meta tags!

[unplugged]

I think its GB-UK or EN-UK or something obsure you want to use but im sure one fo the forums I use which is US hosting based comes up in UK only google searches I will have to verify this though

[younesbouazza]

Oh Ok! Seems like th servers are based in the UK! OR IS IT A .CO.UK DOMAIN?

[unplugged]

its a .com hosted in the states im sure if used to come up in UK only searches once we added a meta tag I could be wrong though as this was a good few years ago im s=trying to remeber which domain it was

[DPS Computing]

I think the point has been missed here with some posts regarding .com domains being categorised according to location!!

Don't forget ".com" does not mean the US. ".com" means "commercial". ".com" is not tied to any specific country so hence you will appear in the countries search of where the domain is hosted!!

The reason ".co.uk" results always appear under the UK country searchs is because the ".uk" means United Kingdom!! The US has its own country code ".us" as does every other country in the world!! A ".us" name would always appear is US searchs as another example!

Hope that clears it up for people!!

[eUKhost.com]

Originally Posted by unplugged

its a .com hosted in the states im sure if used to come up in UK only searches once we added a meta tag I could be wrong though as this was a good few years ago im s=trying to remeber which domain it was

UK address in whois makes some .com website hostings appear in UK search even if based on US servers. SE's have made people crazy and almost 50% of internet world wants to become expert in google's algorithm

[DPS Computing]

Originally Posted by eukhost.com

UK address in whois makes some .com website hostings appear in UK search even if based on US servers. SE's have made people crazy and almost 50% of internet world wants to become expert in google's algorithm

Yep, some people take degrees entirely about the way search engines work and spend a long time studying the successful ones such as Google.