There are many who thinks .info TLD can't rank well in search engines comparing to .com. This is an example that .info rank well if you have quality content. Search Google for word "Spain" . you will get 379 million results and see which is the rank 1 site for this keyword. Its www.spain.info which is a PR 7 site .
Well first off, the domain has the keyword in it. Second off that one example. How many .com's .net's .org's do you think are ranked #1 for competitive keywords. Search engines see .info's as spam sites, since it is only $1 unfortunately many spammers use these sites and give the TLD a bad rep.
They have the same value, but since .info sites are so cheap many made for Adsense and other crappy/spammy sites use these extensions, so they sometimes get a bad rap.
Well I just registered a .info domain in may and it has some good content and backlinks. It ranks well for a keyphrase on 2nd page among 2,xxx,xxx search results.
It is truth not myth that domain name does not make any difference however country specific tld like .co.uk, .eu, .us may influence their local search results.
Spot on. I personally hate .info's with a passion, however it's got nothing to do with SEO'ing the domain. As Badlands said, there's just a large percentage of them that are MFA junk because of their low price which gives them a bad rap. There are a few good infos out there, like Joost De Valk's PR7 www.css3.info however every time i see an .info in my referer logs i automatically think "spam".. And generally i'm correct.
I think you miss my point what I mentioned in my earlier post is in the view of search engine, it does not make any difference. Anyway I find spammer using other tld as well like .biz and .org etc too, its not just .info.
yeah, there are other tld such as .com .net used by spammer too. I hope its really nothing to do with SEO. tld doesn't matter, the title, keyword, content is matter.
I agree with a point that .info can rank well. However, your example is totally unrepresentative. Do you know rules for registration .info domains such as [country name].info? It is easily to get .edu domain than such .info. As a result Google can put a lot of weight for such domains.
you again trashing .info domains .... what the hell is wrong with you ? What you are talking about $1 names have absolutely no sense at all. And you with that myspace proxy are good right ?
Lol Ok. There are many .com's, .net's and .org's that are sooooooooo spammy as well. But anyways .info is making its way up there as being a great extension. And yes they are cheap. They are promotional for the first year, but have to pay the reg fee of any other extension the second year. So they are not that cheap for renewals and or transfers.
It may be the case that .info's have been the preferred domain name for spammers but I can't believe that SE's would penalise all .info's because of this. If this happened countless thousands of legit sites would be penalised for the wrong doing of others and what's more they would be completely ignorant of this state of affairs.
We have propertyinvestor.info and it's doing just fine, thanks. Most .info domains are used for MFA or spammy sites. Done right a .info is as good as any. The only problem we've had is getting people to accept that the email address is right when filling in forms etc.
There is no difference whatsoever between .com and .info, search engines do not devalue .info domains because they are cheaper. The reason you will find the majority of sites ranked in the top 3 are .com and .net, is because those extensions have been available for a lot longer, and therefore those sites are more established.
I launched a .info site 6 months ago and I have outranked the .com site by much on google. In fact it received PR3 from google on last update, awaiting for more PR on this coming update. Google for the keyword: "travelborneo" to proof my point.
Sometimes its hard to out rank .com or .net for a keyword when sites with those tlds are old. everything else is same.