Should I serve images from the same Top level domain as the current domain?

[jef2220]

We run a multidomain e-commerce website that targets each country respectively:

• .be -> Belgium
• .co.uk -> United Kingdom
• etc...
• .com for all other countries

We also serve our product images via a media subdomain eg. "media.ourdomain.be/image.jpg"
This means that all TLD's contain the images of the .be media subdomain. Which is acually seen as an outbound link.

We are considering to change this setup so that it serves the images from the same domain as the current TLD, which would make more sense:

• .be will serve images from media.ourdomain.be
• .co.uk -> media.ourdomain.co.uk
• etc..

My question is: Does google image search take the extension of the TLD into consideration? So that for example German users will be more likely to see an image that is served on a .de domain?

[dotfly]

Sure - I can confirm this behaviour because we`ve experienced it already.

Google is very anxious to show content which is closely related to the country of origin where a user starts the search query... but what you describe there will take some time to show up...

but by the way: I am not sure if your efforts will be honored that much by Google... it`s a little step and the impact on SEO might by questionable according to the time you need to make these changes?!