FreelanceKing

Ok, I have this site with .co.uk extension. The site is equally relevant to US as it is to UK users because the niche is not restricted to UK traffic. However, since I have .co.uk domain, I was wondering what would be good ways to increase US traffic from the search engines to the site. Although the site has almost an equal amount in US to UK traffic, I think if I had a .com extension there would be even more US traffic, possibly substantially more than UK.

Its quite an aged domain, so how do I go about getting more US traffic?

SEOServiced

Several of my clients buy both the .co.uk and .com extension, and ensure that both URL's point to the same place (check out The Internet Baby Shop - Baby Furniture, Pushchairs, Car Seats, Baby Walkers, Baby Toys and The Internet Baby Shop - Baby Furniture, Pushchairs, Car Seats, Baby Walkers, Baby Toys).

Unless your website isn't getting picked up by the US versions of the search engines, I generally don't recommend doing anything tailored to a specific Country. If your website is not Country specific, then if optimised properly for the search engines, traffic from all Countries will eventually come.

Of course, for direct traffic from a certain Country, you could optimise your site to include words for that Country. For example, rather than optimising a website for the keyword / phrase "Freelance Forum", you could optimise for "US Freelance Forum". The visitors who searched for the term are obviously looking for a freelance forum in the US, and so there's a high chance that they are residing in the US also.

Hope that helps.

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indian_seo

You should try removing any text with "UK" ( especially on the home page )

Try to add addresses of U.S offices and locations. Along with that you should try getting / or exchanging links with U.S websites.

This will help your website to score higher rankings on Google.com (USA)

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TryUsOut

If the .com or that .us are still available, buy it and do a redirect. You can also have it hosted in the US as this will help in ranking process in Google.com.

Also try to build more backlinks in sites ranking high on SERP in Google.com.

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RandyC

I recommend you never buy a domain specific to a certain country unless it is only relevant to that country. Instead I recommend buying .com and .net I always by both and just redirect the .net to the .com for example visit logicdepths.net and it will redirect you to logicdepths.com i do not recommend parking your other domain on the same site as you will be penalized for duplicate content in search engines.

Best Regards,
Randy Cram

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web_doctor

Try to submit your link to US based directory submission sites as well as in your local search engines too, focus on the directory submission sites where you want to do SEO mostly. And I agree with SEOServiced to be specific with your keywords also. Then try to monitor your site ranks both in international and local versions search engines such as google.com/intl/en/ and google.co.uk from time to time.