Personally, I've noticed that .info domains take much longer to get indexed compared to .com/.net - I've done this experiment many times in the past 2 months or so, and it is always the case for me. I've also noticed that .info's are very slow to climb up the SERPS, and can easily get outranked.. Has anyone here found the same to be true? I'm starting to think that I should stop wasting time with .info's and just go for the .com/.net domains. If anyone here's still having any luck with .info domains - care to share any tips, etc. on how to get them indexed faster? Are .info's pretty much just a waste of time when it comes to wanting to rank for terms/keywords and long term SE rankings?
Just submit it to digg and propeller and it should be indexed very quickly. But .info in my opinion are not good for long term seo
Yep, digg and propeller are one of the few things I do to get my .info domains indexed, but it still takes a little over 2 weeks to get them showing up in Google. Sometimes if I'm lucky, it will take a little over a week. I guess I might just be impatient, but when I do the same for .com/.net, they usually get indexed in 1-2 days, and sometimes even a few hours. Thanks for your opinion - I'm pretty much doing this hoping for long term SE rankings. I guess I'll wait for a few more opinions before I stop bothering with .info domains completely.
I honestly don't know if they do make a difference SEO wise but an info domain always has a cheap and nasty feel to it although in saying that a lot of non-webmasters probably wouldn't have know the difference.
I created a site using a .info and it was indexed by Google by the very next day. That was 6 months ago and right now 55% of the traffic for that site comes from the search engines. The tld does not a make a difference to the SEs, the important factors are content and backlinks.
Here is what I did: I first had only 3 pages of content that I had written before I regged the domain. I got the domain, installed WP and then posted the three pages. Of course, I used the All in one SEO plugin and set the permalinks to the post title. As soon as I did that I submitted another article I had written to a site called the California Chronicle. I also set my Recent Blog Link to display the blog here at DP. The next day I got a Google Alert for the domain. I setup a google alert for all my sites so I get notifications when they find a backlink. Since that time (February 08) I have not bought any links. I have written articles for Ezine Articles and Hub Pages and of course I continues to add new pages to the blog. So far for July I have had only 1,050 uniques and the site has been making around 5 to 6 per month via AdSense. Not a lot, but it was late in February when I started it.
I don't really buy this whole idea that the search engines are anti .info (or any other tid.) I don't think Google punishes sites because of their tid's. I think there's not a lot of .info sites at the top of the search results because not many people make a serious effort with them.
Very true! Their are a lot of crappy .info sites and many of them have been deindexed or ignored by Google, but it is because of the content and backlinks and not because of the tld. I remember a time when .nets were looked upon in much the same way that many view .infos now.
Dude, the difference is like 5 bucks. It's worth it. If not for SEO benefits (seriously how many .info's do you see in top 10 SERPS?) - then for the users. A dot com is the most recognized type of domain name, and it looks much more professional. Seriously, if you don't think you'll make more than 10 bucks a year off a website, it's probably not worth making in the first place.
For the most part I do agree with you. I currently own 27 domains, only three of which are .info the rest being .com However, the number of .infos in the top ten ranking compared to .coms is a result of the age of the .coms, quality of content, backlinks etc and not the tld. .coms have been around much longer By the way, I have another .info that is less than two months old and is already on page 2 for the targeted keywords (of 161,000 results). It is a niche specific site for which I have purchased 0 links, 0 directory listings and have not submitted any articles for. It isnt a commercial site, just a hobby site, but it is there nonetheless.
Well, if .infos rank that well, fine. I would still buy a .com entirely for the reason that it's the most recognized and it looks more professional. And as I said - if you don't expect to make more than 10 freaking bucks a year on a website, you're probably be better off without it anyway. Don't know what the fuss is about, just get a .com, lol.
What is the fuss? I am simply trying to state that Google doesnt care about the tld and that the thing that should be concentrated on is content and backlinks. Getting a .info indexed and building the traffic to it is no different than with any other tld. The question (read the first post) wasnt about whether you could make ten bucks, It was about getting a .info indexed.
Well, I'm still not sure about that, and my point was that you might as well take a safe bet and go with a .com.
I haven't had any problems getting my .infos indexed. Now, having said that, I haven't really done much with them since I use .coms for any serious project. The .info's are just throw aways for silly projects that I don't intend to make any money on.
An experiment that I had conducted as of recently has me in the consensus which actually uses .info's as a great tld for landing pages. I have a couple of .info domains and one of them which I am using right now to promote a product has been more successful then other marketing strategies that I have used. I am convinced that .info doesn't have an indexing issue or a lower-status connotation from Google's algorithims.
well as far as i think .info does pretty decent job ... if you look at the search results for the most popular term "How to make money online" at google you'll find "moneymaker.info" something .. which just goes to show if you are doing the right things , then it doesn't matter if you have a .com or .info I guess this should clear any doubts ...