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I agree with Alan, 10 links from great sites like, edu, gov or news sites can far outweigh thousands of spam links. My advice is to go after a few high quality links yourself. Your serp rankings will go north and eventually your competitors will go south.

Hey, It really depends on what you're looking to do - are you wanting to actively trade via those other ccTLDs? For example - with your .co.uk; do you have the ability to offer your product in the UK? If so, then it's absolutely fine to set up as a separate site. However, if you're just going to replicate your current site you will need to do a little work to avoid that content being seen as duplicate. You can geo-target via webmaster tools see - http://www.seo-chicks.com/1463/geotargeting-on-the-same-domain-using-xml-sitemaps.html You can also implement rel-alternate hreflang via your sitemaps see - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/multilingual-and-multinational-site.html As Fidelityim says - I'd also recommend you including other signals e.g. Local phone numbers Local bricks and mortar addresses Local currency This helps the search engines understand where you're trying to target. Please note, that whilst this activity will help in terms of geo-targeting your content in order to actually rank in these countries you'll likely need to do some link building for each of these sites too. I hope this helps, Hannah