I have 2 web sites:

http://www.servicedaccommodation.com
http://www.internet-apartments.com

How can I get servicedaccommodation.com to be identified as a uk site ?

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 02 Jul 2003 12:10 PDT

rkw...

Is it feasible for you to change the URL to
http://www.servicedaccommodation.co.uk/   ?

Greetings, rkw!

The way the Googlebot indexes websites by country has a lot to do with
the text on the main page of the website.

Right now, on your main page the text string "UK" appears only once in
the Title and once in the Text; the string "United Kingdom" does not
appear at all.

In order for the Googlebot to identify your site as one aimed at the
UK, you will want to include at least 3 or 4 occurrences of the text
strings "UK" and "United Kingdom" on your main page; the higher up in
the text (nearer to the top of the page, the better. Of course, you
will want to work these into the sentence structure of your text, and
not just list "UK" "UK" "UK" "UK" "United Kingdom" "United Kingdom"
"United Kingdom" "United Kingdom" on the page.

You will also want to include "UK and "United Kingdom" at least once
on each of your subpages.

Once you have made those modifications, re-submit your
http://www.servicedaccommodation.com site to be crawled again by the
Googlebot, but be sure that you do it from the UK site:
     
://www.google.co.uk/addurl.html    
  (Be aware that it may take a month or two for the changes to your
site to start showing up on Google; however, since Google also uses
DMOZ as a guide to its indexing efforts, you might be able to speed
that up a little by also submitting your site in a DMOZ category as
described next.)
  
  DMOZ (Directory Mozilla/Open Directory Project):   
I recommend that you submit http://www.servicedaccommodation.com to
this Category --
Top: Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: England: London: Travel and
Tourism: Accommodation: Self Catering
http://editors.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/London/Travel_and_Tourism/Accommodation/Self_Catering

Again, because DMOZ/ODP is human-edited, it may take 3 weeks or more
for your listing to be added. However, if you can get listed in a UK
Regional Category in DMOZ, along with the text changes I suggested in
your pages, it will help a great deal in getting the Googlebot to
recognize http://www.servicedaccommodation.com as a UK site.


As a bonus, might I also suggest that you remove the word "LINKS", and
the accompanying hyperlinks, from your main page?

It will help your Google Page Rank if you put these links on a subpage
entitled something like "Serviced Apartments - Local Features of
Interest" (DON'T use the word "Links" on this page). Then put a single
link on your main page that says "Local Features of Interest" leading
to that subpage. Be sure to include a hyperlink on that subpage
entitled "Home" or "Back to Main Page" which links to your base URL
http://www.servicedaccommodation.com , as well as links to your other
subpages.


Before Rating my Answer, if you have any questions about the
information that I have provided above, please post a Request for
Clarification, and I will be glad to see what I can do for you.

Best Wishes on improved placement in Google Search Results!

aceresearcher

Thanks for answer and advice, it's much appreciated and gives me lots to go on.