Google Search UK vs US Product Marketing SEO - Help Needed

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by JJBourne, Jul 11, 2009.

  1. #1
    Hi everyone,

    I need some help here, basically if I wanted to sell something to the UK market and got a .co.uk domain, would my searches come back before the US domains, let me try and example...

    I found a good profitable 'exact' keyword phrase "white shoes" and I started to make a full optimized website affiliating from a clothes store and got the domain white-shoes.co.uk or whiteshoes.co.uk and sold them products with £ currency

    Would my searches come back before the US websites came back, just say if there were a US store www.whiteshoes.com? or amazon.com/whiteshoes?

    and would it be best to use a dash in the domain keyword or just leaving it as whiteshoes.co.uk all as one word? which works better in google search terms?

    Thank you :)
     
    JJBourne, Jul 11, 2009 IP
  2. zexy

    zexy Guest

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    whiteshoes.co.uk is the best choice if you're going to sell white shoes in the UK.
    For the US market I would suggest you to use a .com domain though.
     
    zexy, Jul 11, 2009 IP
  3. JJBourne

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    cheers Zexy

    So, if i purchased the domain www.whiteshoes.co.uk and there was an American website selling white shoes and there domain was let says www.americanshoes.com/whiteshoes and there company was a big retail then if people in the UK did a search on google for white shoes, would my site be on top of theres in results?
     
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    saturn100 Well-Known Member

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    I am no SEO expert but my guess is yes
    With a co.uk and your keywords in the domain it should be a lot easier

    I know some one who has a site with an irish cctld (.ie)
    The domain is two keys words that return 13m results
    She has 2 backlinks and PR of 0 knows nothing about SEO but is on the first page for keywords ( no.9)

    I am hoping to attempt this with a Austrian website
     
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  5. JJBourne

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    cheers, thats good info, just what i need :)
     
    JJBourne, Jul 11, 2009 IP