I'm putting together an adsense site that I want to be ranked for specific keywords. I'm finding that .info domains are the cheapest to purchase. Does google differentiate between .com, .org, .info when ranking organically?
Yes, often Google will rank an .info as much as a .com, .net etc.. For example, spain.info ranks for the competitive term "spain". Even BuyKamagra.biz ranks at or near the top for "buy kamagra" which is a competitive term. .biz has an even worse reputation than .info.
Its not really a factor for it, but you can definitely boost your TrustRank if you purchase the domain for 10 years. Cheers,
TLD doesn't matter unless it's location specific, with that being said though there was a period a year or two ago where alot of folks with .info's got their crappy spam sites de-indexed. A friend of mine had a bunch of .info's de-indexed in G, and had other sites of the same quality that were not de-indexed. With that being said, I have/had two .info's and they both continue to rank well. Keep that in mind next time you register a $2 domain.
mdvaldosta - That brings up a great question. Lets say I slap together an adsense style site that has some targeted content on it for specific keywords. Something like this site http://baseballbatsforsale.org/, not exactly the highest quality site in the world, but it ranks organically for "baseball bats for sale". This site is pushing traffic to adsense, so is Google really going to de-index the site? It would only be hurting itself. Thoughts?
Those were the kind of sites being de-indexed. It happened to loads of people, and again it seemed as .info's were directly targetted. I'd imagine, while a TLD is a TLD, the fact that they were so cheap led them to be prime tools for spamming. As far as the Google/Adsense connection - they operate as separate entities completely unrelated to each other. The Adsense side has no knowledge or interaction with the search end. You can be banned/de-indexed in one or the other and each other would not know or care what happened on the other side.
I dont thinks google care. - except .EDU and .GOV i thinks google treat them all the same - at least thats my own experience .
Interesting question. If google doesn't care, why do .info's sell for so much less on the secondary market? They usually sell for 10% of their .com/.net/.org counter parts.
Google doesn't treat those TLD's any different. The reason many of them are extra "trusted" is because the links going to them are usually very good and from other trusted domains. Just because it's an edu or gov doesn't mean it will outrank another site of similar content, age and backlink profiles.
sorry dont agree with that. you'll take .com and .gov with exactly same links - google will treat them different and will relay its ranking favored toward the .gov.
It has much more to do with the quality of the site than the domain. .info sites usually don't rank well because people rarely put good content on them, not necessarily that Google cares if you use .info or .com.