This UK SERP problem was pointed out by LukeEales on twitter, the search for “long distance moving companies” is the worst he’s seen, and I’d have to agree.

So let’s break down the 1st page to check each site’s location.

I carried on going but there isn’t a UK based company in the top 7 pages.

What’s even more surprising is some of those sites appear in the from UK Results. There are UK websites that are relevant to the search query, a quick search with “long distance moving companies inurl:co.uk” shows a good selection.

Referring back to the post the early this morning about SharkSEO’s theory that Google is using related searches to generate some of the related searches for “long distance moving companies” does feature locations in the United States.

Are related searches influencing the results in the UK? Even if the search data is from the US?

The UK SERPs are still full of non relevant foreign websites and now rishil (yes the one who’s twitter account was suspended yesturday) has created a twibbon to give you the chance to add your support.

A twibbon adds a little ribbon to your twitter picture, you may have seen the one supporting the NHS on many accounts. Now you can get one on your own profile to spread the word about the problems with the UK SERP’s.

If you want to join the campaign head over to the UK SERP’s twibbon.com account which has been set up by rishil.

After a little quiet period another problem with the UK SERPs was highlighted yesturday by  ismepete a SEO team leader for Verticle Leap. In performing some key phrase research in the nursing home industry Pete noticed that Google is way of the mark with some of their results.

In total all of the following key phrases returned some American sites on the 1st and 2nd pages.

• care services jobs
• elderly care providers
• nursing home help
• family nursing
• home senior care
• elderly services

As mentioned in previous posts most of the news about problems with the UK SEPRs is on twitter. Such is the frequency of the posts about the UK SERPs a hash tag is starting to be used #ukserps. A hash tag simply enables a user to see all the posts related to the ukserps by searching twitter with #ukserps.

So if you see a problem in the Google UK SERPS tweet it with a link to the Google results page and the hash tag #ukserps

Most of the chat about the problem with the UK SERPs has been through twitter. So it’s best that we have some presence on twitter so I’ve set up a twitter account @ukserps. Please do follow that account as it will keep you upto date with any news about the UK SERP’s and examples of strange Google results.