What are your thoughts on the .info extension? I have a few .info dictionary names and not sure about keeping them. Anyone of you dropped a lot of your .info's? I think the reputation of .info has dropped even more than last year. By virtue of being the spammers/MFA favorite extension....Google seems to rank them low.
I think the reputation of .info domains is becoming better now that they cost the same price as .com. If you have good one-word dictionary .info names, I wouldn't let them drop. It's not true about ranking of .info domains in search engines. Search engines rank all domains equally. Check out my thread here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=332894
My Webmaster blog has a .info domain currently, yesterday I wrote a post about something and with in couple of hours the blog was ranking no 1 in Google for that term. Although that term only had 20 results at that time, rest were from leading news sites with good PR. That little search term and couple relating to that, brought in roughly 700 visitors yesterday. .info rank bad? I don't think so!
I find it hard to believe Google would purposely rank a certain extention low. Info's are still about 2 bucks, and for about 90% of domains worth 0, but I think it could change over the next couple of years.
Why? Its because they are so cheap and spammers abuse them. Thats why Google have put some kind of filter on new .infos but in theory it shouldn't make any difference in the long run if you have a legit site. Many new .infos aren't just sandboxed, they are not even indexed!
I agree that spammers abuse .info domains. I do not think Google or any other search engine will rank you lower because you have .info domain, but because of spammers people can rank you lower.
I'm not sure about being ranked lower - because I have never bothered to develop a .info - but you will have a harder time getting indexed in the first place with a new .info - I have 100% proof of this. I have many parked domains. About 95% of my .coms are indexed and the ones that aren't are because they are too new. 0% of my parked .infos (ie not one) is indexed, some of them are quite old too. It stands to reason that if they will penalize them at the beginning, then why wouldn't they penalize them later on too? I mean, when was the last time you saw a .info in your google search results? I almost never see them.
Bad answer. It shows you are not serious about this debate and you just want people to click your link. Enjoy some red.
You expect me to type ~600 word post here? I got better things to do then argue with people like you!
You've already written 120 words on this thread. You could have summarized your point by now if you weren't trying so hard to get people to click on your linkbait
I dont think Google bother to rank low .infos coz spammers. if spammers want they would get a .com or a .net. its not something Google can control. if you have quality content and quality back link its not a big deal to out rank a .net or a .com which has less quality stuff.
The spammers get caught and busted pretty quickly. They have a high turn over so while the cost difference might not be a lot on one domain, it all adds up quickly when you have to keep registering domains. Thats why they use .info
I've noticed that most if not all my .info domains are not indexed even after nearly a year...whereas the .coms get indexed after a while...some very fast, some slow but 80% get indexed eventually. So, maybe there is a penalty for .info...that's tough. However I think if you keep working the site, eventually the penalty is lifted. I'm sure Google employs a scoring field by rating on many points, and the extension is one of those criteria with rating. But since I'm not a Google engineer, I cannot be 100% sure. Same situation with me.
I actually was wondering the same thing and so I picked up a few .infos and developed them. They are all PR3's now after the first PR update so I think that should say something about googles handling of .infos.