US Hosting UK Sites (update)
Written by mbpage on July 11, 2008
In my post US Hosting UK Sites I discussed my realisation that my .com and .net domains targeting the UK were not being indexed in the UK and the plans I had to turn things around. I am pleased to say that these have been successful. The solution was similar to that outlined in my post on .info domains.
If you read that post you will know I use HostGator because of the exceptional value for money they provide compared to the cost of UK hosting. The disadvantage of this is that any domain with the exception of a .co.uk will not easily (if ever) find it’s way into the google.co.uk index. With Googles webmaster tools also failing to sort this out their are only two solutions.
Host country specific sites in the country you are targeting (not as easy as it sounds because in the UK the leading hosting company’s servers are located in Germany) and often expensive e.g. £9.95 per month per domain.
A much better and much cheaper solution is to use HostGator and just buy country specific domains. I bought .co.uk for my UK stores via Godaddy. Moved my existing stores and redirected the old domains as outlined in my previous post and low and behold they appeared between 2-5 days later in the google.co.uk index where they need to be.
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3 Responses to “US Hosting UK Sites (update)”
Hi I have Hostgator baby croc at the moment. What I’m trying to find out and can’t seem to find on the Hostgator website is if you get different C block IP addresses with the reseller account. Any idea?
By janet on Jul 18, 2008
Janet - its a good question and I’m not sure. I’ve always found their live chat in support very useful give them a try.
By mbpage on Jul 19, 2008
Have you tried listing the sites through Foreign search engines ?
I did a couple and they were accepted - after all a link is still a link bit I think the sites were of interest to people in those countries.
Thanks for the 301 info ..
Keith
By Keith Jones on Jul 22, 2008