Regional websites

[markc-197183]

Hi,

I run 4 websites London, New York, Singapore and Dubai. Same company but some of our products are different in each region.

Each domain is registered in the relevant region and I have google webmaster tools set so they know the location of each website.

The problem is that our Dubai and US websites are appearing higher that the UK website in google.co.uk organic.

Does anyone have any ideas why?

Thanks

[Mark_Jay_Apsey_Jr.]

Mark-

Need more info.  Are you linking between the sites? Do you have truly unique content on each site for a majority of the content?

Here are some reasons why you could have the issue:

You are linking between the sites and passing link juice from the Uk sites to the other sites.

You have duplicate content issues on the UK site ( you dont have entirely unique content on the UK site). For example, you might have 60-70% of the same verbiage on the NY site as the UK site. Assuming that the NY site is being seen by Google as the original site with this content, then the UK site content will be seen as duplicate content and will be discounted in  SEO value.

If you run an opensite explorer report on each site, you will be able to see what type of authority the pages have for specific keywords and then this will help you determine if you have the above issue.....

Hope this helps.

Mark