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I have been to a seo seminar
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Hope you didn't have to pay for it.
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have been advised to use the .com version of my domain name instead of the .co.uk as you can register for longer and apparently that gives favour in googles eyes
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Sure, you can register a .com for ten years, but Google doesn't really care.
I have UK domains that do very nicely on both google.com and ALL its regional sites.
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At present I have my .co.uk hosted on these servers and .com is pointing to it.
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If you change this arrangement you can expect rankings to drop temporarily (possibly for months), and when it is all over you probably won't see any improvement - and if you are targetting UK visitors you will need to set the geolocation back to UK in Google Webmaster Tools anyway.
If you have a ranking problem there may well be other causes.
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Is this what i would need to put into my htaccess file
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First you would want to direct the domain to your UH nameservers, then alias it from Ensim.
Then you would put this in an .htaccess in your public folder:
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# Turn on mod_rewrite
RewriteEngine On
# Domain Aliasing
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.co\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L] Personally I wouldn't take any notice of SEO "experts" - they often approach my clients offering to put their sites at the top of the Google rankings for a considerable fee, without noticing that they are already there and did it for nothing.
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