Yahoo page rank of 0 for co.uk site but 5 for .com version

andy_art_trigg · #1 (**permalink**) 05-27-2006, 05:38 AM

My site is a for UK users and a .com, but when I realised years later that it wasn't doing so well in UK only searches I took advice and registered the .co.uk version. I point the .co.uk URL to the .com site.

I have a Google page rank of 5 if I enter either the .co. or .co.uk URL, but I've just used a Yahoo page rank tool, which showed my .co.uk URL as page rank 0 but the .com URL gives page rank of 5.

Most of my inbound links are now the .co.uk - should I be concerned at this?

**incrediblehelp** · #2 (**permalink**) 05-31-2006, 02:17 AM

Well if you are redirecting the co.uk the .com then the engines would see this redirect and assume the .com was the real/permanent website and not the .co.uk, no matter where other websites are linking to.

If you want to promote the co.uk domain them switch it over so the .com redirects to the .co.uk. of course doing this can greatly affect your traffic and should not a be a rash decision.

Keimos · #3 (**permalink**) 05-31-2006, 09:21 PM

Hi andy_art_trigg,

If your customer base is Uk then you need to switch to the .co.uk site.

incrediblehelp, is spot on about switching, so do it gradually. Basically, from what has been said before get 301 redirects from certain pages and basically move things over if only a page at a time.

Tweak, do not jump. To help use a short adwords etc. campaign from Yahoo or google to make the spiders crawl your site

Or as they say, slowly, slowly, catchy monkey

Keimos

**incrediblehelp** · #4 (**permalink**) 05-31-2006, 09:53 PM

Good point Keimos on switching over slowly. Avoids much collateral damage when learning the whole process.