301 redirect .com to .co.uk to improve position in UK serps
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I've set up a new campaign for a website specifically targetting a service offered in a specific UK city.
It's on a .com domain, and we've managed to get a few powerful links and while its only been going for a few weeks it's starting to get decent rankings in Google.com but is nowhere to be seen in Google.co.uk. It's getting good traffic but not traffic that converts probably because it's targeted to the UK and most visitors are from the US.
I've just set up Google places, changed geo targeting to the UK, I've moved over to a UK host and we're targetting UK sites for links. I think while things are still at an early stage it would be a good idea to move everything that's on the .com over to the .co.uk with a 301 redirect and send all new links over to the .co.uk. What do you guys think? Is this a good idea?
Thanks
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It's perfectly possible to get a .com ranking well in the UK - there are lots of sites that use a .com and rank just fine.
However if time is of the essence (and when is it not?) and you have the .co.uk domain then switching now and building further links to the .co.uk is probably a good option for you
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Resounding yes.
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