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Does Google.co.uk only like domain.co.uk?

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Yue last edited by

How about use the .com domain to bit the high rank in Google.co.uk?
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Yue @intSchools last edited by

Anyway, I saw too many domain.co.uk in SERP in google.co.uk more than in google.com
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intSchools last edited by

There isn't much (if any) influence in having a .com or .co.uk for UK domains anymore. It used to be a ranking factor but many UK businesses use .com domains, as it is generic and well used.

.com is classed as a Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) meaning it is used around the world. You can view a list of other geotargetable domains below:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1347922
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