How to replace my .co.uk site with my .com site in the US Google results
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My customer and I are based in the UK. My customer's site, www.blindbolt.co.uk has been around for years. Last year we launched their American site, www.blindboltusa.com.
Searching on google.com (tested both via proxy and using the gl=us querystring trick), a search for blind bolt on the US Google returns our www.blindbolt.co.uk site. We would like it to show our www.blindboltusa.com website in US searches.
Webmaster tools has the Geographic Target set correctly for each site.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions please? Thanks.
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Thanks Jane, that's a great help!
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Hi Matthew,
Although the metrics of the two sites (number of backlinks, etc) are quite similar, domain / site age are going to be playing a part here. The years of indexation are going to put the .co.uk site at a big advantage over the .com. Although exact match domains are not a guarantee of ranking, you do also have an exact-match with the .co.uk, but not with the .com (with "usa" added). Do you have plans to acquire http://www.blindbolt.com/?
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