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A reall dumb keyword question

by smith33122
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The keyword I am looking at has 210,000 global searches and 115,000 local searches. Does that mean that the keyword has 325,000 searches or that the global search is 210,000 less the 115,000 local searches?

How to I tell Google that I am interested in global searches and rank on Google.co.uk for the local searches?

Do I set up 2 web sites both .co.uk and .com and try to rank seperatley and will Google punish me for 2 sites with duplicate content?

Thanks
#dumb #keyword #question #reall
  • Profile picture of the author ronaldmd
    Global searches are the searches made by the people around the world, while local searches are searches made by country you select.

    You don't need to tell Google, if your domain is .uk, it will automatically rank better in google.co.uk and rank less in google.com.

    If you make 2 exact sites, the site that's cached later by google will rank less compared to the site that's cached first, but both won't be suspended.
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  • Profile picture of the author stellaandreapark
    Google will surely punish you for having two sites with duplicate content especially now that there is the panda update.

    Figure out first where you wanted to rank, in Google local or international.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Tyler
    If you want to rank locally go for .co.uk. If you want to rank globally go for .com, .net or .org.

    Mike Tyler.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kerryrus
    Is your business only for those locally? If so then .co.uk but if you need your site to be seen globally then .com is the way to go. So I suppose it depends on what your goals are.
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  • Profile picture of the author jackwebson
    My suggestion is to focus on the .co.uk extension since you are focusing on local searches only.
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