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We're lunching a new site and we've managed to secure desired domain name with .com and .co.uk

The business in question is UK based and  is catering for UK customers. We're not interested in foreign traffic. Should we go with .com or .co.uk? .com sounds much better and I think it will be easier to build a brand  using .com

Hi Tom

GWMT are showing only a very small portion of your links, the OSE does a much better job but it is not showing all of your links either.  I would suggest you compliment OSE with Majestic to get a better picture.

Yes. In UK all users are automatically redirected to google.co.uk.

The results are different for each country, that makes them more relevant. Say i'm based in Birmingham UK, and looking for a design agency or a restaurant. Local results will be more relevant to me.

Hi Guillaume, check the list of  Recommended Companies

I don't think you're being penalized, you wouldn't just drop one page down. I suggest you take a good look at all the recent changes you've made on and off site. This could be the case of some of your links being lost or devalued.

Higher DA does not guarantee better ranking, it does help your pages to rank better but you still have to optimise them for your keywords.

Try http://themeforest.net/

I would also recommend a third option ie. www.companysite.com/blog (this way  backlinks will be strengthening your domain's authority) Use it to communicate with your customers, publish  good content to attract external links.

This is known as  canonical issue. Search engines see these as three different pages.  You can fix this using 301 redirect.

More info here

Hi Sharma

You can use all the SEOmoz tools, they are great. You should start with stetting your first campaign (if you haven't done this already). You can have your site crawled for errors, you can optimise your pages and check your backlinks.

Hi Dex

How big was your drop in rankings and was it just one or many keywords?

The OSE will pick the redirect, but when checking your new domain using OSE do not expect to see links that are pointing to your old domain. This doesn't mean your old redirected domain isn't passing any links juice. OSE will show your old domain as a 301 redirect to your new domain.

Hi Markus

I just did a quick check and it does show for me. You're getting B. Try again.

Regards

Tom

I suggest you find a reputable, local SEO agency.

Blog comments aren't the best way to get quality backlinks. Most of the comments would be nofollow anyway.

This is not a good strategy. You will be better off producing some quality content. If you can get your articles/content published on other quality blogs linking back to you, then that's great. But one article is not going to be enough.

No problem. You can use OSE update calendar to see when is the next update.

Hi Nikos

It takes time for your links to show on OSE and even then not all of them will.

You don't have to limit yourself and only build links form sites that are already linking to your competitors. Use competitive link research to find opportunities but  build other quality links as well.