Co.uk v Com when searched by UK people

[mikeylondon]

If I am based in the UK and I did own the domainwww.visitlasvegas.co.uk (which I don't)

1) Would this appear above the equivalent dot com one if it was searched by people here in the UK?


Cheers,

Mike

 

[ScottJ]

With all else being equal then yes quite likely to in my experience.

 

[acceleratoraccelerator is verified member.]

When targetting UK surfers by natural SEO, the .co.uk normally gives the best results. If it's a good keyphrase though, I normally would want to own the .com as well, but I would tend to forward this to the .co.uk if targetting UK surfers (or just build a separate unique site on the .com as well).

Rgds

 

[bensdbensd is verified member.]

Google.co.uk will give higher placement to .co.uk names and also sites that are hosted in the UK.

As far as i know google does this with all "country" versions of google.
ie. google.de would give preference to .de domains and sites hosted in germany.

-Ben