[openmind]

Responding to the hosting issue, having a UK domain hosted in the US shouldn't impact on UK specific searches. However, hosting in the US will have other factors that may impact on the hosting service overall such as:

Higher ping times
Higher latency meaning slower sites
Overselling (more commonplace in the US)
Slower FTP speeds

There is more to hosting in a different continent than just SEO. If you are a UK business running a UK biased site then overall you are better off hosting in the UK.

[Alvin]

Just a quick warning hosting a .co.uk site on a canadian server is a serious problem for ranking on google UK.

Alvin

[Dymo King]

Originally Posted by Alvin

It is said that a page has to be 80% similar to be considered duplicate but I personally don't trust that figure.

easily done by just rearranging the order the text is displayed on the page.

Does that really work? If you just swap a few paragraphs around but have exactly the same text on the page is that not classed as duplicate content?

[OldWelshGuy]

Originally Posted by Dymo King

Does that really work? If you just swap a few paragraphs around but have exactly the same text on the page is that not classed as duplicate content?

Yep, but it is grey hat, in as much as it is not known what will happen when/if the spam detection algo strikes.

[dragonfly]

Originally Posted by Alvin

Just a quick warning hosting a .co.uk site on a canadian server is a serious problem for ranking on google UK.

Alvin

That's an interesting one to watch out for. How do you find out where your ip address is actually hosted then?

[OldWelshGuy]

Originally Posted by dragonfly

That's an interesting one to watch out for. How do you find out where your ip address is actually hosted then?

try this.

http://www.webconfs.com/website-to-country.php

[dragonfly]

Well one of my servers is in the states, the other is Undetermined.

[openmind]

Originally Posted by dragonfly

Well one of my servers is in the states, the other is Undetermined.

What's the IP address of the unknown one?

[admagic]

Originally Posted by An Oasis

Rewrite and restructure the content. I assume that there is software that will do this but have yet to find anything that is worth using. So far it seems to be quicker to do it be hand using a WP or database to do global replacing.

Website content wizard - is very good for automating this process....point is any particular niche, the synonms and phrases are common, so having altered one piece of content....it can repeat the process on others.

I also use unique article wizard, which is let down only by the fact that some of the directories it uses are obscure

[dragonfly]

Originally Posted by openmind

What's the IP address of the unknown one?

It's our main site at 98.130.150.26