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November 9, 2006

Homepages disappear from Google UK site: search

Filed under: google, seoKevin Gibbons @ 10:14 pm

Rebecca from SEOmoz yesterday posted about homepages disappearing from Google UK results. This was first spotted on WebmasterWorld where many people have noticed the site: command is not displaying the homepage for .com websites hosted in the UK.

Rebecca says “I’ve played around with various sites, and while the home pages pop up under the normal web results, they mysteriously vanish when you add the UK-only filter.”

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1 Comment »

  1. [...] Since August 2006 homepages using a .com TLD have been removed from Google.co.uk results when using the UK filter. This site (www.seoptimise.com) has suffered from the same issue [...]

    Pingback by .com homepages reappear for Google UK searches | SEOptimise — March 10, 2008 @ 10:06 am

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