Big difference in rank on google.com and google.no

[danlae]

Hi

Our E-com website went from 8th to 1st spot yesterday for our most important keyword (barneklær = childrens clothing) on google.no weirdly enough we arent ranking on first page at all on google.com . I find this very strange especially since the keyword itself is so country specific - mainly because of the norwegian specific letter - æ.

The results are not due to personalization i ve check it with the keyword difficulty tool here on seomoz. The sites ranking higher then me on google.com are sites i am ranking higher then on google.no. Anyone got a good explanation ?

The changes for my keyword  in ranking i saw yesterday was alot more then i am used to see - almost like google made some sort of script change. we went from 8th to 1st. 1st dropped to 4th, 5ht went to 2nd etc - i  am not used to seeing this big changes.

Anyone got a clue to either of these 2 questions ?

[ResslerMotors]

How's your U.S. link profile compare to theirs?

[danlae]

4 of 5 top ranking sites on google.com are truely 'more international' then we are so that might be the reason.

So i need more links from non-norwegian / us-based sites to improve my rankings on google.com?