Do search engines rank ccTLD domains like .us differently?

Hey guys, I am just wondering if search engines rank sites depending on the extension you have. Do they give low ranking and weight to ccTLDs for example, would .us extension website would rank the same as .com extension. Or, it would be ranked upon poorly compared to popular extensions like .com, .net and .org. Please advise!

 

my few .in sites rank good in google.co.in like that it can work with cctlds

 

There is no different policy for top level domains or country level domains by the search engine to give a rank. If you have site with valuable contains according to query search by search engine, you site will be ranked. It is also based on algorithm of search engine to rank any site. The three top search engine are : google, yahoo, msn (now knows as bing).

 

For certain level yes. co.uk usually rank better in google.co.uk IMO.

 

I've seen several cases where different TLD's rank well for their keywords. I think .org and .net can hang with the .com TLD's, but when you start getting into .info, .us, etc. you're gonna have a harder time ranking.

If you put a lot of time and quality content on any domain, you would like to think it would rank well, but in my opinion, it doesn't work that way.

 

+1 for that. I have some *.be TLDs that rank higher in Google's return from Belgium but lower elsewhere.

I noticed though that Bing seems to be balancing those a bit better. The sites in question rank mixed in with others.

 

That means my .us site is of no worth. May be I should move my site to another domain name with .com or .net, or .org extension, then. I still don't know why search engine differentiates ranking depending on the TLDs or ccTlds ? Please help!

 

Basically... .us was a dumb extension from day 1. People in the US did not need their own extension - .com and .net was perfectly fine. Google doesn't bias .us toward American-based browsers. I can't even remember the last time I have EVER seen a .us show up on a SERP.

Like anything else, you have to promote it very heavily. I run a .us site, only because the domain name was so high profile, and I bought it many years ago. It requires a LOT of promotion to start appearing...yet, it seems to hit a glass ceiling for certain things, whereas my .com's never do.

 

Thanks for the info! I had wondered if some of my weirder domains had hit a glass ceiling because of the domain... saying that it could always be another factor... hard to pin point...

 

whatever the conclusions may be .com is the only one which scores well on world wide search engine servers.

moreover geographic oriented domains rank well only in their home country.

 

That is 100% fact.

 

Its true you hardly ever see .us or .cc in search engine listings, .co.uk is very strong though - does anyone know how google factors in for .org extensions. When they were introduced they were supposed to be for organisations and therefore more credible but anyone can register them.