.co.uk vs .com for seo

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As someone based in the UK, .co.uk is the obvious choice for my website, but is there a benefit to be had in terms of seo?

My web address is www.photographerinessex.com, at the time .co.uk was taken, however it had not and has never since been used to host a website.

I have just found that the renewal date for the .co.uk version has been and gone and the account now suspended. Looking uop the name of the person that took had bought it last operate from facebook only nder a completely different name. So reading between the line they may have originally wanted to build a website, and for whatever reason that didn't happen, so I imagine it is now unlikely to be renewed by them and may soon become available again.

If it does, I will buy it regardless and redirect to my .com address so that I have both covered. But is there an advantage to moving my website over to .co.uk and redirecting .com to that?

As an added complication, the name that my business goes by is actually the unoriginal forenamesurname-photography.co.uk, with that pointing to my photographerinessex.com address. Not sure f that would have any bearing.
 
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Minimal difference - .co.uk probably targets UK users better than .com, but you can set this in google webmaster tools anyway. I wouldn't get too excited about it.
 
Makes so little difference that it's not worth worrying about.
 
Buy it and just redirect it to .com, stops someone else getting it.

Seo is based on a number of things including the IP address and the country it is in.
 
FWIW, for the cost of registration, it may be worth having both, with a redirect from .com to the .co.uk (or vice versa)
 
For the cheapness of a domain, I'll get it an redirect just so no one else can set up with the same.
But as suggested, I won't bother moving the site content over to .co.uk

Thanks all.
 
Yeah I think that's the right choice. No SEO benefit but might as well stop someone else using it. and 1 .htaccess file does the whole redirect, job done
 
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