Here's what I came up with after a quick SEO analysis of the

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On-Page Factors: All sites have geo-modifiers such as UK, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds in titles, H1 tags, meta keywords, etc. So it's obvious that they are targeting keywords like 'car hire UK', 'pizza delivery Liverpool' etc. Some sites had a lot of articles with geo-targeted keywords, others seem to rely more on off page. Some of the car rental sites had info about car rentals worldwide with a special 'choose country form' written with javascript.


We don't know for sure how well Google handles java scr lebanon mobile phone numbers database ipts but perhaps it's able to pull this information from there. The sites also heavily employ UK related anchor texts in their internal linking which is another indication for Google that they are relevant to the British searchers. Off-Page Factors: I checked the incoming link profiles of these sites with SEO SpyGlass tool and here's what I found out: 8 to 20% of links to the websites come from .


co.uk domains. 2 to 12% of anchor texts have a UK related geo modifier in them, such as UK, London, Manchester, etc. The sites are listed in the UK business directories such as businesslook.co.uk, scoot.co.uk, thomsonlocal.com, etc. These are strong indicators of a websites relevancy to the UK market, and Google obviously uses them when ranking .com websites in Google.co.uk If you find more factors that contribute to higher rankings on Google UK or any other regional version of Google, do share your findings in the comments.