What ranks better : '.info' or '.com'

I think there is no difference in SEO perspective. Its just easier for people to remember .com

 

It comes down to how good your content is, how many sites support your content (backlinks) and if you provide value to the surfer.

 

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I Think that is depend of optimize our domain. Get backlink high PR.

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lizaveta - Good and right answer.

 

I set up a plain website with half a dozen pages on a .info with keywords in the domain. There are 4 possible combinations due to British/American spelling variations. A month or two after registering domain and putting up website, it's ranked #1, #3, #4, & #3 for Google SERPS depending on what spelling used for the search terms. Oddly, the #1 ranking is for search terms spelt differently than the keywords in the domain name and in the title tag.

Total results on Google SERPS from a search of any of the 4 combinations is about 20,000.

Microsoft has #1, #1, #1, and not ranked in first 30 for one spelling (I didn't check further). Total results about 20,000.
Yahoo has #1, #1, and not ranked in first 10 for two spellings. Total results about 100,000-150,000.

I know it's hardly exhaustive research but I was pleasantly surprised. It helped of course that there are no other domains in the SERPS with those keywords, but there are many pages on various other websites that have been around for a couple of years at least with the same keywords.

 

IMHO, I agree that ".com" would rank better, asuming that all other factors are equal.

 

I have seen some .info sites ranked well, it depends how you optimize your website for search engines

 

It doesn't matter at all.

 

Obviously .com rank better than all others.

 

.com is a safer bet than .info

Anyone who says otherwise should talk to people that were building 20 or 30 sites on the backs of .info domains when GoDaddy was having it's sale and letting the go for .99 cents.

Guys would have 50 sites running. 25 were .com and .net sites and 25 were newer .info sites and all were in the top 10 for their targeted keywords.

The hammer came down and these .info domains were all dropped to page 5 in a matter of 72 hours, but the .com sites remained the same. All sites were similar in nature. Ebay affiliate sites with lite content. All things being equal except the domain extention it was quickly determined that .info was the culprit.

This is not to say that all .info domains were given a penalty though. When this all went down some had heavy, content-rich sites that never experienced a change. The algorithm took the fact that there was tons of keyword specific content into account and "passed over" those authority sites.

Anyway, the word on the street is, if you are going to build a series of content-rich sites (or sites that will get traffic from places other than search) then .info is a safe bet. Other than that, it's best to fork over the extra 4 dollars and go with a .com or .net

 

Nothing, or else all webmasters would go after that domain ending. It is all about backlinks, but i prefer .com because it is just more memorable.

 

Many people using black hat strategies register and use millions of .info domains for their games. Google.com know that and set additional filters to all new .info domains.

 

i prefer .com. users remember .com domains simply and i notice a little different between .info and .com for seo.

 

.com is better to go with

 

Domain extension is irrelevant to Google ranking. Google doesn't favor any specific domain extension. If you want to achieve a good ranking, you need to do the right on-page optimization and linkbuilding techniques.

 

dairyman,
You wrote "When it comes to ranking by google, dot com has an edge over dot info."

You are 100% sure?

Please have a look (Google for "music") at http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=music&fp=KqtEvp1-d7s now.

I saw 50% of them not .com.

For some searches, .com almost disappeared.

Now there are more netsurfers outside the English-speaking nations searching for information normally available from websites not using .com.

I have about 10+ websites using .info, .hk.cn, .in domains enjoying good ranking.

I'm a full-time net biz guy and to survive I have to update myself with latest the SE technologies, including
how to get more traffic from non-English speaking countries.

I do agree that .com is good for the memory. If available I will register all top 4 domains (.com, .net, .org & .info).

 

TLD always matter as per as searches is concerned but in the eyes of search engine extensions does not matter.

 

dot com has an edge over anyother extension like .net , .info but not over .gov and .edu

 

good stuff!