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FleaBag · #5 02-27-2007, 08:27 PM

I had wondered this myself. I don't dispute what the above 2 posters have said, I am happy to trust you on it. But are you able to offer insight into my situation?

OK my site is called 'Dragon Ninja'. These key words have nothing to do with my content. My URL is dragonninja.co.uk.

There is another site, also called 'Dragon Ninja'. Again, the name of the site has nothing to do with it's content. Their URL is dragonninja.com.

My site has many more pages indexed, and the words 'Dragon Ninja' occur more often than on the .com. They also run vBulletin, and their main site is basic HTML, in no way SEO optimised. Their' domain has though, been registered a few months longer than mine.

In a Google search for both 'Dragon Ninja' (the spoken name of the site) and 'DragonNinja' (the way both sites are referred to on themselves) the .com gets slot 1, I get slot 2.

Is this because my domain is .uk and Google considers my site to be relevent to a UK sized audience only (which it is) - while the .com is considered to have the entire world, or at least the USA (larger population than the UK obviously) as an audience (which it is).

Does Google rank in this way, or is it for another reason?

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