Weird Geo Rankings - Help Please!

[marcus81]

So I've got a site - a .com, hosted in the USA with no geo target set in webmaster tools.

I'm from the UK where the site ranks no 6 for its main keyword but in the USA it's ranking no 38.

That's pretty much it!  I can't get my head around why this would be - the US market is the main market for the product/service so I am thinking maybe it's just more competitive but surely many of the sites ranking in the States would be in the UK too.

....  it's such a difference in rank!

PS, the site was no 14 in google.com until penguin 2.0 but dropped although its .co.uk ranking has remained - another thing that has left me dumb founded!

The website is www.options-trading.com and the keyword is "options trading".

Any ideas?!

[Raydon]

what does your content say about US vs UK? your street address? your google plus page? your google maps listing? heck your other online listings? because you know that google considers all of these as factors for relevancy of information regardless of your geo settings in WT... yep, they have already said they aim to become a "knowledge engine" as opposed to a search engine, so they basically build up a semi-intelligent profile on you this way as far as I can tell, and that is how they can corroborate various types and sources of data about you and then decide how to rank you where and for what keywords.

a lot more involved here than your geo settings in WT imho

Also what are we talking about here, two domains or one domain? .com and .co.uk could very well be treated differently for rankings in UK vs US. I am a bit confused.

[marcus81]

Google authorship is not setup and the domain not registered in either the UK or USA.....

We are speaking about the same domain - a .com.

...... thanks for your input so far.

[marcus81]

...  just to clarify, also, there is no Google maps listing and most of the linking URLs are GTLDs.

[marcus81]

Can anyone advise on this please?