If I was starting a site that was very saturated in the .com market wouldnt it be more beneficial to start it as a .net, .biz, etc for the sake of having a more relevant name in the URL? Lets say I was starting a Hot Tub business, and cheapHotTubs.com was taken, but cheapHotTubs.net was available, would this increase my sites PR? Some other benefits I see are that it is much cheaper to register domain names under the lesser known extensions. Only benefit I see of using a .com is for any ad that doesnt directly link. thx.
In my opinion .com are more popular as compared to any other extension and also for business .com is a better suitable extension and also .com have a higher resale value if you have a sucessfull website.
I agree with seo_ranter. Well we have SEO common in our name . It does not really matter what extension you use except for country specific, military and edu domains. What matters is how you build your site.
Most commonly use is .com so the people will notice that .com is great to use.. .org, .net are not much popular in other user..but it is the same..
domain name has nothing to do in helping one site rankings. Because it all depends on how you optimized the web page to get ranked.
.com domains are more popular, easier to remember, and therefore if the domain u want is available in all extensions, u should definitely take domain.com and not domain.info or domain.net !! But .com giving other search engine related benefits is unheard of..
Users are used to .com, they just put a .com at the end of every phrase they remember and that is the weak point of .net and .info and others.
Bingo - there's the answer. I've noticed "seo ranter" can usually be counted on to tell it like it is. Now, depending on your domain name minus the extension ... if it's s971358 it really doesn't matter between dot com and dot biz. ( Don't laugh, on another forum someone asked how to SEO a site that looked like someone had a seizure at the keyboard... ) On the other hand, if your domain is, say, "music" or "fun" or "information" or basically anything you can say to a person and have them remember, they're going to assume dot com, and you may find yourself loosing traffic to the dot com version.
seo is not related domain extension. every is the same for com or net domains. there will be only one advantage for com domains. people will easyly remember that domain
Seo is not for remmeber the domain. It is for getting visitor by clicking from the search result pages.
Well, .com does have a particular advantage. Alot of times I just type .com by habit when I'm posting links in forums & other places. Plus, now there are like 100s of extensions making the .com even more valuable then they ever were before.