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.uk.com any good for seo?

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How are .uk.coms for seo? I have a .uk.com with the exact term i want to target although there is a lot of competition..
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Has anyone ever seen them in the search engines?

I can't recall seeing one ranking ever!

That said there should'nt really be a problem, no domain name is better than others for ranking in any search engine, aslong as you have covered geo-location issues relating to your particular domain extension and the search engine you are targetting.

For example, if i target google.co.uk i always go for an extension ending in .uk, but thats just because its easier and i then don't need to worry about where my domain is hosted, the geo location of the DNS servers, amount of incoming links from UK sites etc.
 
Has anyone ever seen them in the search engines?

I can't recall seeing one ranking ever!

That said there should'nt really be a problem, no domain name is better than others for ranking in any search engine, aslong as you have covered geo-location issues relating to your particular domain extension and the search engine you are targetting.

For example, if i target google.co.uk i always go for an extension ending in .uk, but thats just because its easier and i then don't need to worry about where my domain is hosted, the geo location of the DNS servers, amount of incoming links from UK sites etc.

Agreed never seen a .uk.com rank. Might have a problem then as im with hostgator but i cant find a uk reseller hosting account at as good a price..
 
You would be surprised how many people do not put spaces.


food for thought......


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Yes thats true people do, i get this with various domains too like: www.printerink.org.uk etc, but that does'nt mean a particular extension is good for SEO.

People don't optimise for search terms (except for you it seems! ;)) hence why a domain name like adultchat can rank for that term.
 
im with hostgator & most of my .co.uk's are #1 or in top 10 ...

the site we had from ashley even when we moved it to a US server didnt drop any rankings at all :)

also .. adultchat.uk.com should be able to rank for adult chat not just adult chat

search for recommended loans as an example ( im #1 )

agreed though ive never seen any .uk.com rank anywhere lol
 
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i don't know anything about spaces but i read somewhere that the domain name is less significant than page title when it comes to seo. uk.com operators are unlikely to shell out a lot on seo or quality content. So regarding the absense of uk.com from the rankings, my thinking is that owners of good higher domains like com and co.uk do a lot more seo as obviously they have more to gain in the long run? its nothing inherent to the extension.


Back to spaces, i often miss the space bar when searching and don't delete as i have confidence in the engine to propose the correct spelling, but i don't actually drill down the results of the non-spaced results. may bejust my habit. on the other hand, Sedo is pretty hit and miss when it comes to guessing keywords from unhyphenated domains.
 
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no, stick with established tld or cctld's much easy to avoid the sandpits for duplicates on datacentres.... ;)
 
How are .uk.coms for seo? I have a .uk.com with the exact term i want to target although there is a lot of competition..
thanks

as a far as i know, useless
they're subdomains of uk.com , so basically useless
 
just what i have read. might be rubbish

subdomain or not, does it matter? I thought that if you own sex.com and you can create a sub domain called hot.sex.com these are treated by google as two completely different domains? Which is why subfolders are better than subdomains for not leaking page rank?

I have done a bit of research on the net (might be wrong of course) and my conclusion is that extension means nothing - and google only falls back on a domain phrases to rank keyphrases in the absence of more significant factors such as content, links, size of reg period etc.


Obviously unspaced key phrases have less competition so visably google appears to rank this page highly, but only becuase of absence of other factors such as link names and page titles which I understand are above domain title in the seo hierarchey. No one titles thier pages with unspaced prhases, unless of course they wish to target it, sio its much easier to target these names.

Single word domains are of course a different kettle of fish. as page titles etc are likely to be the same as the domain so its harder to disassociate the effect.

this is all just a mash of blogs so do correct me if your experience proves me wrong.
 
as a far as i know, useless
they're subdomains of uk.com , so basically useless

Ah so that in that case UK based hosting would be essential for google.co.uk at a minimum.

If Google does indeed treat them as a subdomain, they are a totally different prospect, so the realy question is:

Does Google see .uk.com web addresses as subdomains or as a seperate domain?
 
subdomain or not, does it matter? I thought that if you own sex.com and you can create a sub domain called hot.sex.com these are treated by google as two completely different domains? Which is why subfolders are better than subdomains for not leaking page rank?

I have done a bit of research on the net (might be wrong of course) and my conclusion is that extension means nothing - and google only falls back on a domain phrases to rank keyphrases in the absence of more significant factors such as content, links, size of reg period etc.

Subdomains could matter, as often they are based on the weight of the main domain, so if something adverse happened to uk.com, your rankings could in theory plummet or at least be harmed.

I'd also be weary of a Google crackdown on subdomains at some point to stop various companies abusing them to rank well in the results, Ebay, Amazon etc...

This of course all depends on how Google does 'see' uk.com's, if they treat them as seperate domains that is fine.

Extension does'nt really matter apart from any potential Geolocation issues, which you could well encounter in Google.co.uk with a .uk.com
 
Subdomains could matter, as often they are based on the weight of the main domain, so if something adverse happened to uk.com, your rankings could in theory plummet or at least be harmed.

true, subdomains of a strong authority domain tend to rank much better in google (with the proper links of course, nothing will rank without backlinks). That is under the assumption that google considers them to be subdomains.
Although generally, according to google officials, extensions shouldn't have effect on google rankings
 
So I am way of the mark in thinking subdomains are treated equally as totally separate domains by the SEs? As if this were the case the original weight of the main domain is irrelevent. They are seperate domains as far as the SE is concerned.
 
...not entirely irrelevent in the sense that big sites that use subdomains tend to link their subdomains together. But of course this tactic is only effective if you have massive page rank to begin with.

I don't see why google would see this as abuse. its part of the set up that sub domains are differentiated.
 
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