Hi everyone, I was just wondering if anyone knows if the .info extension hurts your google rank? Thanks for any help.
Google does not care of domain tld used. They are important for ranking only in country results for cc level domains. .info extension can be bad solution just because they are cheap, and are more often used for spammy sites, than other.
I know one info website that's ranked very well in a particular niche. Even though my own website is ranked better than that info domain, I wouldn't mind having a well-ranked info website . There's no difference at all. But... One friend of mine who owns several info domains told me that there were times when Google removed those info domains from the index for about 2-3 days without offering any reason/explanation. After this period the websites returned to where they were before.
I used to tell myself that tld doesn't have any effect towards your serp but the thing is that I hardly come across any .info that actually ranks well in the search results. Coincidence maybe or could it be true after all that google don't give importance to this tld.
I personally feel it doesn't make difference if you have .info or com,net,org domain. But if you have country specfic domain like .co.uk, .in , .com.au etc then it matters a lot, your site may be ranking very well in your country google datacenter but nowhere in google.com world datacenter.
Extension of website and rank does not have any relation. Google just sees the web page nothing else.
No effect on rankings in search results for the type of domain but the type of IP address classes (A, C etc) may have such effects.
Even though everyone here seems to think otherwise i think that the extension of your domain does have some effect SEO wise and from what I've seen, Google tends to prefer .com's and .net's over the rest. That's just my opinion of course.
I think search engines does not care wether your site extension name is.info or not. The important is how you optimize and promote your site.
if you don't want to invest 6 or 7 dollars in a .COM, how do you want google to trust you or take your website seriously ? and YES search engines do care about extensions. if you are after "engagement rings" and you happen to own "engagementrings.com", you pretty much have done 95% of the SEO JOB, since believe it or not, you almost have a guaranteed place in the top 3 with such a domain name. the info version of the domain will not be of a great help, it will not make any difference, infos are doomed, avoid them like the pest. (UNLESS YOU DONT CARE ABOUT GOOGLE, or YOU OWN A MOVIES, WAREZ, GAMES or a PORN SITE)
.tld on its face has no bearing on seo. That is the 5th time I have had to bring this up in a few days. This thread is about seo and whether or not having a .org, .com, .info etc. has anything to do with ranking the site. It does not. This convo is about the extension or .tld. It does not speak to having a keyword rich domain name, proper content etc. Folks who think it does, are not only wrong, but they fail to realize the point in having new tld's in the first place. I will try to speak at length about it this evening. I am trying to wrap something up real quick. I frankly get really tired of folks acting as though they know what they are talking about when they clearly don't have a clue. Here is another one. Loads of clueless folks who can't seem to use the search feature http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1568736 Quit drinking the cool aid folks... Nigel
Google doesnt care about the domain TLD, I guess. What may be important for you is whether the url is easily recallable/rememberable by the target audience/consumers of the website. Consumers easily remember TLDs like dot coms.
Pretty much the point I am attempting to make. Whether the end user can remember something is not related to SEO at all. That is a marketing and or a brand based consideration. Which brings me back to the point of providing more tlds. Nigel