How hard is it to rank a .co.uk domain?
 

Example: porn.co.uk
It doesnt come up for me when i search for porn on google.uk or the other geos.

Is google uk censoring adult? Or is it that hard to rank a site with the exact keyword in it?

And how hard is it to rank a .co.uk exact keyword domain in the usa? Examples?

In theory it should be easier to rank a .co.uk on UK Google but I don't have any so I can't give examples.

lets make a contest?

My understanding and limited experience with non-.coms is that the engines do weigh in on regional TLDs.

I thought so too.
Still its weird to see a lack of highranking .co.uk pornsites on google.uk..

Sometimes when I search Google, I get several co.uk sites that ranks in the top 10. But that is in mainstream.

The tubes own almost every listing in the "porn" search, "sex" search game. Before tubes came, I remember penisbot.com being #1 for "porn" for several months... now they are...#2 on page 3. (for me)

Tubes changed the porn biz. But I believe that there's a chance that you can outrank several tubes for "porn" and "sex" if you keep your domain local. Like porn.co.uk, and make a tube site of that...

I believe co.uk domain names are getting way less type ins, than dotcom. And way less attention from webmasters. dotcom is still king. :2 cents:

Yes. But if a keyword.co.uk would rank 1st place on google.uk it wouldnt need typeins. Most people google instead of typing in any url i assume, so if it ranks number 1, it would get a shitload of uk traffic no?

Just weird i cant get any decent adult sites when using google.co.uk, and i dont even surf family friendly :)

anyone who's going to spend the time and $ to get to the top for a competitive adult keyword is going to use a .com anyway so it skews the results.

I understand that. But if i where to rank porn.co.uk first place on google.uk, it should be more then possible or?

You have to do some SEO magic to the domain first, obviously it's not going to rank by itself... but yea, there is no reason why you couldn't rank porn.co.uk...

porn.to has cracked the top 10 of g for "porn" over the last two months so foreign tlds seem not to matter.

For many of the reasons stated in this thread porn seo and traffic from seo listings for porn these days is a total waste of time. Even if you get top spot... its all free tubes.

MUCH easier to rank for MUCH higher paying non adult terms.

or maybe I'm just a lazy fuck

And google.uk isnt filtering adult right?

.com and .org ranks best, then .net

I have tried country codes and they don't generate traffic...

there should be no difference why .co.uk should be any different than .to or .hu or whatever.

Yeah, I know I just wander off topic at times. :)

Me thinks too, maybe you have discovered a revenue stream nobody have thought about. Ranking high on niche porn for the Uk, with co.uk domains, no?

if you type porn into google.co.uk you get a page full of porn results. So no, google.co.uk is not censoring porn results. Not yet.

If your question relates to whether the co.uk tld will get you higher on google.co.uk searches, the answer is a resounding yes, from personal experience.

I'm a British webmaster, I don't make a lot of co.uk sites simply because I don't think it has much of a future. Not much more of a future than the .de domain extension has.

However, the couple that I do have went straight into the first page of google.co.uk after 2 or 3 blog posts and a single back link. And they make me money.


But fyi, match.com want to get shot of adult.co.uk as quickly as possible.

http://www.t3.com/news/premium-domai...on-sale?=52857

Can i ask you why you think theres no future in it?

Because the UK government are even trying to block porn at the ISP level. It's unlikely they will get away with that, but they'll have to do something to save face. Saving British children from porn was one of their election promises.

I would hazard a guess that they will go down the German route and bring in a law requiring that all uk domains/webmasters have impossibly strict age verification systems. Either that or get google.co.uk to filter adult.

In which case co.uk would be worthless, certainly for an affiliate, if that's what you are.

Having said that, while I was looking at domain sales history last week, I did notice that good .de porn names go for a premium. Presumably because german adult pay sites have to rely on type in and exact match domains for seo in order to get traffic (with no german affiliate sites feeding them traffic), and so are willing to pay the money for them.

Seeing as I check my positions on there every day, I should bloody hope not.

Use the tld, use the country code meta, get UK backlinks.

It's actually a lot easier to get a localized keyword.tld then a keyword.com if you are trying for that specific tld at google.

If you are a confirmed UK site, with UK tld, and UK country codes, you'll have a 10-20X's easier go at ranking on google.co.uk then if you had used a .com. BUT that is only going to give you local weight and doubtful you'll ever see it show up on .com since you've specifically told them its for UK searches.

They factor in if you are a uk ltd?

Im sorry you asked how hard it is to rank the country.tld in US, I thought you asked about ranking it in UK.