I agree content is king, along with title, description, link hierarchy, image optimisation etc etc but do not agree regarding one-way incoming links. I have 5 websites, none have incoming links but have xml sitemaps and ALL are on page 1 results of google. I feel that all of this link mania is detrimental, as well as pretty unecessary, by encouraging people to rush what IS actually important simply to gain links. Links do not and will not negate the need for the rest of the site to be perfect before you get the results people crave
Actually, it depends on the market your're after. .org will work well and be very effective for non-commercial campaigns .edu will work really well with educational markets. cheers! :-D
Well my first motivation behind this question, my friend advised that .com (of course) and .US (?) are the good top level domains. And do not ever register .org domain. He said .org domain is fine, but if you want quick resolution and the targeting is mainly US, use .us domain. So I wanted to ask your thoughts on this. That was based on his experience and he is quite successful IM. So , I tend to follow his foot steps .
The domain extensions doesn't deternine your SEO at all. The most important for you are the keywords and keywords phrase and the content of your site. So just do not worry about this. What you should do is to spend more time on SEO.
You are no.1 without any incoming links but the question is for what keywords do you rank no. 1 for your primary keywords and what type of competition is there for those keywords????
Example - One site - Results out of 26,000,000 - 5th position Yahoo - same site - Results out of 82,500,000 - 6th position plus loads of other similar results for the same site for many different pages. At no point did I state that my sites were No1 on Google, simply well up on googles 1st page of results and that they had no incoming links
"Results out of xxxx" means absolutely nothing. How many actual searches that exact keyword gets is what matters. Who cares if you are #1 out of 50 billion results if no one searches for that keyword. You are not ranking on google for any competitive term without backlinks.
How do YOU know, with claimed authority, that my sites are NOT ranking on google for competitive search terms? Answer, you dont, but I can assure YOU they are THE most competitive terms for the market.
You do not have any sites ranking in the top 10 of google for any competitive keyword without backlinks. Any claim to the contrary is a lie.
LOL, your OBVIOUS unwillingness to believe knows no bounds resorting to calling another member a "liar" when you have not 1 fact. You believe what you believe and I will carry on the success this end So, lets say you are optimising for "property for sale in wherever", is that competitive keywords?
Well I agree to you on that. @happychappy09 how is that possible that you rank on 1st page for a very competitive keyword with no links. Can I have your website URL and also the keyword for which you rank in top 10 and I would also want to know how much traffic do you get from Google by the keywords.
Idiot, moron, or liar. I'll let you choose which hat best fits ya. "I would not bother wasting time with links to your site" http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=12338093 Still laughing.
Its not TLD. Its site, content and look. Site with ru, ch, li, tt all could become massive hit and we already have good example for that.
Yes, you're right !! Google .info domains consider as spammy. if the .com domain already registered then you can choose .net
In all of our special domain sales, we reference this SEOMoz study: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-vs-bing-correlation-analysis-of-ranking-elements. Scroll down to the TLDs and you'll get my answer, and our sales to SEOs and developers reflect it too.
Content and backlinks are the most improtant for SEO purposes but personally, I think .org has a good perception among visitors as it appears authoritative and not commercial, so good for reviews and blogs.