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Thanks you so much, it seems obvious now you've pointed it out. Thank you for your help!

A client's site, www.duorol.co.uk is top (or second if a youtube video makes an appearance) for the term duorol if you press enter after typing it in to google UK. Before you press enter though, their site is not listed in the results bought back for instant search.

It's the same behaviour in incognito mode too. Very weird I thought. Does anyone have any ideas please?

Their site's only been live about a month. Could that be anything to do with it?

Thanks very much eyepaq, some very interesting points.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

This question follows on from my earlier question http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-to-replace-my-co-uk-site-with-my-com-site-in-the-us-google-results

My client owns www.blindbolt.co.uk for the UK site and www.blindboltusa.com for their US site. They will shortly be having a new site for Australia.

They have just acquired www.blindbolt.com and have expressed an interest in using this as the main hub for all of their sites, i.e. http://uk.blindbolt.com, http://aus.blindbolt.com.

The current, existing sites (e.g. www.blindbolt.co.uk) could be 301'd to the new locations.

Could I have your thoughts please on whether to go down this route of having international subdomains , vs keeping the sites on separate top level domains? What should I take into consideration? Is google smart enough to return different subdomain results in different countries?

Many thanks!

Thanks Jane, that's a great help!

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.