Good ranking on Yahoo.com, yet bad on yahoo.co.uk

[RomainBaudry]

Hello,

I was just wondering if anybody knew anything about the problem stated in the title? We're pretty much top ten on 80% on our keywords for yahoo.com, yet way worse on yahoo.co.uk. I don't really understand it, so if any of you have an idea, i'd be glad to hear it.

Thank you all for your help


Romain Baudry

[sem4u]

Where is the site hosted?

Is your site a .com or .co.uk?

Do you have links from UK sites?

[RomainBaudry]

The site is hosted in the uk, with a .co.uk domain name. I don't think there are many UK links though, but surely it does consider the other IBL?

Romain Baudry

[Jeremy80]

For geotargeting the search engines look at where your website is hosted and also where your backlinks are hosted. To make the search engines think that your website is a good resource for UK residents, you need links from some UK websites. Try getting links from uk forums, uk directories and uk blogs.

[Bill.Platt]

UK sites need to have more UK links than .com links, or it will be perceived to be a trojan horse masquerading as a UK property.