Hosting/Domain/Traffic Question

[GamblersHeaven]

With the recent news of MG leaving the US I figure it is a good time to go online with some international domains. I am in the US and have US hosting account and I am wondering if you need to have a UK host for a UK domain to get UK traffic from the search engines? If I host my UK domain in the US will it be visible on UK search engines? Can someone give me some insight on how this works?

[Prinzessin]

my site is running undere US hosting account, i have no problem to get traffic europe

[GamblersHeaven]

I was under the impression that in order to get into Google.co.uk for example, you needed a UK web host. Do you get traffic from an international version of Google or international traffic from Google.com?

[AK]

I was under the impression that in order to get into Google.co.uk for example, you needed a UK web host. Do you get traffic from an international version of Google or international traffic from Google.com?

There is so many new . domains it's silly. I recommend if your site is google.com to get all the ending domain urls like google.co.uk etc.

Protect your Name, Save yourself from stupid competitors who try and steal your url name like some companies do.

[PhilF (ex-WhichBingo)]

Put your .co.uk domains on a UK server if you are looking for UK traffic.

It is my understanding that you'll get extra 'Google points' if you do this. Whether or not it's true I don't know. However, there are thousands of good, cheap UK hosting companies so my view would be why 'possibly' upset the Big G with .co.uk domains hosted in US when you can easily keep Big G happy hosting in the UK.

(Our Spanish site is hosted on a Spanish server, despite us being based in the UK for exactly this reason).

HTH

[Webzcas]

I host all my sites on 2 dedicated servers which are in the UK. All my active domains whether .com or .co.uk rank better in google.co.uk than in google.com.

[GamblersHeaven]

Thanks for the replies. It sounds like I will be looking for a UK host since I will be targeting players in the UK or outside the US at least.

Another question. If I own xyz.com and register the .net, .org, and other extensions just to keep someone else from registering those extensions, will it hurt the main sites rankings if I simply duplicate the other extensions with a copy of the main site?

[Chips]

In my thought process (correct me if wrong please) it would be better to set up the other tld's on a 301 and redirect them to your .com. This way you are not duplicating content and if they type xyz.org they transfer to your site. A lot easier to do as well.

Of course cash parking is another option. I purchased my .net and re-directed to .com.