Google ranking an aliased domain name over the main domain

[An Oasis]

Hi Guys your knowledge and thoughts appreciated.

Just noticed that G is ranking our .co.uk domain name far higher than the original .com for certain phrases.

The .co.uk was bought a few months ago and aliased (I think that's the term) via the hosting control panel to the .com - this means that we now have duplicate content, right?

Hosting is on a Windowzs server so I don't think we can do a 301 redirect.

[Brian Turner]

It's possible that Google is simply using an older record of the .co.uk - but I believe there is a way to set up 301 redirects via IIS:

One suggestion here:

http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

• In internet services manager, right click on the file or folder you wish to redirect
• Select the radio titled "a redirection to a URL".
• Enter the redirection page
• Check "The exact url entered above" and the "A permanent redirection for this resource"
• Click on 'Apply'

A more detailed explanation here:

http://www.highposition.net/301redirect.html

Hope that helps.

[Tracy123]

This whole .com .co.uk thing has me stumped

On Google.com we do well
On google.co.uk poor
On Yahoo.co.uk we do well
On yahoo.com poor

Get your head around that ha-ha

[Brian Turner]

Are you hosted in the UK, Tracy? I think it's generally advised to host any UK-targeted site in the UK where possible.