The domain name is a .co.uk domain. It ranks #1 on Google.co.uk but for the same search term it is not on the first 4 pages of Google.com. What could the reasons be and how can I overcome them?
Certain TLDs rank better for different countries and also for different languages. If Google judges your site to be very British, you'll rank higher for .uk than .com. If Google judges your site to be more general appeal across English language groups, it will rank well in all English versions of the search engine.
It's not always the case but the type of TLD can be a factor sometimes. How long has this particular site of yours been live?
It can be a number of things, where are your sites hosted , what TLD you are using , where are the sites linking to you based , what meta data have you put into your site ( if you are using certain CMS it will automatically detect gio location and enter the appropriate tags which are sometimes wrong ) The list goes on.
Apart from domain tld as other mentioned already, if you are using web server located under UK continent then it would be another reason for better ranking in Google.co.uk and not Google.com. You should aware that Google does count everything and combined a hundreds factors toward each website ranking. The geography location of website hosting is another key factor without a doubt, a way to filter more appropriate website to being shown under specific country search activities.
Hi, I think you might have built backlinks mainly from sources in UK. If you want to make progress for ranking on Google.com, you need to increase your back links from sources in USA and other countries. Have a nice day,