Geolocating off or on?

[tidybooks]

Hi

I run a site with with a top level domain -  www.tidy-books.com

We have a www.tidy-books.co.uk and other country based domains

My questions concerns the US and UK for the time being. Basically the UK site was originally on the .com but we changed over to .co.uk about 6 months ago for various reasons (not ideal I know). The US site was on a completely  different URL so became the .com. The final bit is at the moment we have a IP country redirect on.

My question is as the .com at presents carries the most of the SEO juice, ranks higher than the .co.uk but as we have the redirect on gets the customer to the relevant site, would it be best to turn of geo location off on the .com? At the moment for the .com its set as United states.

Hope that makes sense and looking forward to hearing your opinions.

Thanks

[gfiorelli1]

I think I've already answered to this question few weeks ago :).

Said that, I would quit the geolocation of the .com and add in both sites the rel="alternate" hreflang="x-X" and the rel="alternate" hreflang="default" this way:

<rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://www.domain.com"></rel="alternate">

<rel="alternate" hreflang="en-GB" href="http://www.domain.co.uk"></rel="alternate">

<rel="alternate" hreflang="default" href="http://www.domain.com"></rel="alternate">

The first line is saying to Google to show that URL for search done in English all the the world.

The second that you want Google to show only the .co.uk URLs to the users from Great Britain

The third suggest Google to show to people doing a search in another language than English, but that could show up your sites, the .com global version of the site, even if it in English.