SEO UK or UK SEO?
It’s interesting even thinking about ranking for these two terms. I think UK SEO is more a informational vanity SERP, where SEO UK is more a transactional term, and probably more valuable (for this seo company).
I think it’s a bit less spammy when linkbuilding to rank for UK SEO than the alternative especially when blog commenting (not done that for a while though I don’t really linkbuild to this site that much any more – although I have in the past tried and get the odd link from a decent website with the exact anchor text match – probably why we rank on page 1 for UK SEO). I’ve certainly had more of a focus on content the last year or so that’s a nice result.
It’s interesting when you think about it. When you break down the search and try to get into the mind of the actual searcher and understand what they do when looking for something. Did they type in SEO first, then modify with a UK to narrow the search? Probably. Maybe that’s why Google says there is more searches for SEO UK than UK SEO using their keyword tool (last time I looked)?
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Written by Shaun Anderson
Hi, this post makes me realise how much more competitive the SEO keyword market is in the UK. If you enter ‘SEO France’ in Google.fr :
http://www.google.fr/search?q=seo+france&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS211US212&aq=t
you can see that the listings include sites that have poorly been optimised, whereas the equivalent SEO Uk or UK SEO in Google.co.uk boasts a higher quality SERP: eg: Dave Naylor on UK SEO.
Very interesting post, though it has defintely put me off from investing time in optimising my site for SEO UK or viceversa.
Aye I was going to mention David’s ranking on that term but then I would have to link to him and frankly a page with this title with a link to him will only help him (wether he deserves it or not) lol!
Interesting thoughts Shaun, and something I’ve pondered over for quite a while now. I still haven’t worked out whether to put my location before my occupation or vice versa. In the end, I optimise for both and then some more. I can’t get into the mind of the searchers, so I generally go with what I think, and thats location first.