Help With how Google Searches UK Pages / Rest Of Web

spidross01 · #1 21-08-2006, 10:06

Hi

A friend of mine runs a website business. Just lately he has seen that if he searches through google.com with the radio button "search the web" his website comes in the top 1-2 results, if he searches again with pages from the uk selected he is way down the list. This has only just happened and he did enjoy the top spot in both searches for a long time. it seems that google has changed the way searches are done when using pages in the uk/ the web radio button

My question is does anyone know how google searches and how it differentiates between uk only pages and rest of the world?

Does it work on the server that host his website's IP address? Or is it to do with whats in the keywords that google searches for.

Cheers for the help in adnvance

DABhand · #2 21-08-2006, 12:00

It has never worked that way.

Rankings are classed on leaving the site to the targeted site. The amount of clicks are tallied continuously and are avg'd for per hour.

So he might have been 1st or 2nd but with a rush of clicks to some other site, he can easily be knocked down again.

spidross01 · #3 21-08-2006, 12:34

Cheers bud,

Probably hadn't really worded my question correctly, all thats happened is that his pages are not showing up in the uk search but are top of their class on the whole web search. Think have sorted it, seems like google did a big shakeup of it's self on 27th July.

So basically they search geographically using IP and the CC TLD, all he needs to do now is fyully link the .co.uk site to the .com seemlessly and voila he should be ther. but how he does that is another matter!!

but once again many thanks for your help it is always most appreciated