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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

I would not advise buying EMDs for the purpose of linking into your main site, or for redirecting to your site after those EMDs get exact-match external links. Theoretically, if you had good content on the EMDs that you wouldn't mind putting on your main site some day (because catch-all redirects, like an entire site redirecting to the home page, are treated as 404s, according to John Muller of Google) you could gain something by redirecting the EMDs to that content on your main site once the EMDs had some decent links. However, the amount of effort it would take to do this would be significantly more than what it would take to put good content on your main site to begin with. Google has been lowering the importance of exact-match domains and exact-match anchor text for some time now. Shortcuts don't work forever. I don't mean to sound like some preachy white-hat guy, but even if you could get it to work for awhile you would be risking the reputation of your primary domain. When a site gets banned people often lose their jobs. They go on unemployment. They can't pay their mortgages. They can't afford health insurance. So yea, maybe a little bit preachy. Don't do it. Just my two cents. PS: I did try this a few times about five years ago on a few of my own personal sites. It didn't take long for Google to figure out how people were manipulating the algorithm by purchasing EMDs and redirecting them for this purpose.

Hi James, Thanks for your reply. I've just done this The websites hosted on Amaxon AWS. I thought it was where the domain was registered was important not where it was hosted. Not sure what you mean could you explain further? Many Thanks Mark