By switching to .co.uk you will likely filter a lot of non UK traffic from seeing your site in Google. This could be a good or bad thing depending on your perspective. Simply moving to a UK IP can have a similar though less pronounced impact.
A 301 redirect will transfer the trust you've built up eventually, but Google have deliberately made them unpredictable and random to deter spammers. A recent thread on twitter had a bunch of professional SEOs griping that their client's migrations were taking literally months to take place and the sites to return to their former glories. So if you do it, be prepared to lose search traffic for some time.
Is there a particular reason you feel you need to redirect?
The domain is quite important :)
By switching to .co.uk you will likely filter a lot of non UK traffic from seeing your site in Google. This could be a good or bad thing depending on your perspective. Simply moving to a UK IP can have a similar though less pronounced impact.
A 301 redirect will transfer the trust you've built up eventually, but Google have deliberately made them unpredictable and random to deter spammers. A recent thread on twitter had a bunch of professional SEOs griping that their client's migrations were taking literally months to take place and the sites to return to their former glories. So if you do it, be prepared to lose search traffic for some time.
Is there a particular reason you feel you need to redirect?
Hi,well it's early days so probably better to switch now. My interns site is UK focused so some people said "make it .co.uk"