See what I would do like I said was put social buttons on it, to try and and gather some social signals to those articles but then anchor text link out of the content to a page with a term that does generate traffic.

Maybe you can use those articles to help the SEO of other pages.

Add some social buttons around it and try and bring some social traffic instead?

mmm I do agree to disagree from the testing I have done, I have seen better rankings for (emd).co.uk against (emd).org.uk from index.

To the point where .co.uk would rank page 1-3 and .org.uk would rank page 5+

But everyone does things differently, I tend to take .co.uk over anything else when im taking ranking factors into account.

What im saying though is if I had a choice between a EMD that was .org.uk or .co.uk I would take the .co.uk every time purely on the bases the extension's 'power' is a lot strong then a .org.uk.

For example if I had 3 new websites with the same template, same content, same title tag with the domain extension (.co.uk, .com, .org.uk) being the only difference, in a UK search im 99% sure the rankings would be as follows:

.co.uk then .com then .org.uk

Thanks,

I understand what your saying that a .com and a .us domain are equal and other factors will determine rankings...

But argument against your statement is how comes a EMD that is .co.uk out ranks a .org.uk 10 fold?

This info sheet from Google imply's geo-targeting in webmaster tools will improve your rankings for the chosen location but also says if no location is specified then the domain extension will be the indicator.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=62399

Cheers

Thanks for reply,

Can you put the above in layman terms! Finding it a little hard to decipher (my fault).

In general from what I have experienced a location specific extension such as .co.uk geo-targeted to the same location gives the best results when ranking BUT when I look at results from the US, page after page shows results of .com, surely if my above statement is true then a .us domain extension should rank better then a .com.

Dude, you wont be able to do that, the files are stored on the server behind a password locked folder.

Like Ryan said you can download the the html but not the files themselves.

As long as you get the content that should be enough, put it into a word doc and paste it back up once you have the domain, doesn't even need a template.

You need to stop them from re-using the content on another site.