Global or Local

[ShishirPulse]

Hi,

Our company has a .com website which we target various countries from. Its a young company with little or no SEO pedigree, and under 50 external links. We dont rank highly for anything except the company name.

Here is the company website: www.pulse-advertising.com

We are now expanding in the UK and I was wondering if we should be owning the .co.uk website and targeting that or should we continue with a .com url and try and localise it (UK address, phone number, etc).

Finally, if you do suggest that we stick to .com, would you recommend we buy the local urls (.co.uk, .de, etc) and then put a redirect 301?

Please suggest.

Thanks!

[Alick300]

Hi,

I had a website with .com and target market was UK. Site performs well in .com but when I got .co.uk website conversion goes up. As you mentioned above that very little SEO work has done on current website I would suggest you to get .co.uk domain and no need to use 301 redirect in your case ("Its a young company with little or no SEO pedigree, and under 50 external links.).

My suggestion is purely based on my experience.

Thanks