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  1. dj barker Bronze

    Online Marketer at Large

    28 February 2007 16:12pm

    avatar Other than very occasional blips (and some occasional strange things in MSN), I've never noticed a difference between UK hosted .coms & .co.uks in terms of search visibility & ranking.

    However: if you are aiming for a UK audience, a .co.uk address gives instant reassurance that you are a UK provider. Therefore, your clickthroughs from search may be slightly better & your conversions slightly higher. You'll also put off overseas visitors somewhat which you may/may not want to do.

    If I'm aiming at the UK, I usually buy both the .com & the .co.uk. I then set up a 301 redirect from .com to .co.uk.

    I hope that helps!

    daniel
  2. Anonymous Bronze

    Manager at Skillsite.co.uk

    01 March 2007 10:46am

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    Andy_Davies mentioned something about possible problems with Data Protection in an earlier post by moving data from the UK to the USA. Can anyone provide any further information on this and whether it is in fact illegal. Thanks, Ben

    On 16:12:10 28 February 2007 danielb wrote:

     

    Other than very occasional blips (and some occasional strange things in MSN), I've never noticed a difference between UK hosted .coms & .co.uks in terms of search visibility & ranking.

    However: if you are aiming for a UK audience, a .co.uk address gives instant reassurance that you are a UK provider. Therefore, your clickthroughs from search may be slightly better & your conversions slightly higher. You'll also put off overseas visitors somewhat which you may/may not want to do.

    If I'm aiming at the UK, I usually buy both the .com & the .co.uk. I then set up a 301 redirect from .com to .co.uk.

    I hope that helps!

    daniel

     

  3. Anonymous Bronze

    Manager at Skillsite.co.uk

    01 March 2007 10:46am

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    Andy_Davies mentioned something about possible problems with Data Protection in an earlier post by moving data from the UK to the USA. Can anyone provide any further information on this and whether it is in fact illegal. Thanks, Ben

    On 16:12:10 28 February 2007 danielb wrote:

     

    Other than very occasional blips (and some occasional strange things in MSN), I've never noticed a difference between UK hosted .coms & .co.uks in terms of search visibility & ranking.

    However: if you are aiming for a UK audience, a .co.uk address gives instant reassurance that you are a UK provider. Therefore, your clickthroughs from search may be slightly better & your conversions slightly higher. You'll also put off overseas visitors somewhat which you may/may not want to do.

    If I'm aiming at the UK, I usually buy both the .com & the .co.uk. I then set up a 301 redirect from .com to .co.uk.

    I hope that helps!

    daniel

     

  4. Andrew Davies

    Managing Director at True Clarity

    01 March 2007 10:54am

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    Take a look at MalcolmWright's response. He gives a quote on the legal issues

    "Personal data shall not be transferred to a country or territory outside the European Economic Area, unless that country or territory ensures an adequate level of protection of the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data."

    Which is pretty vague.

    I'd like to hear anyone's thoughts in this area?

    Andy.

  5. Anonymous Gold

    Managing Director at Ampheon Limited

    01 March 2007 10:54am

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    See my earlier post (the one with the stars against it).

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