How Hard Is It To Rank A .info Domain ?

here is what I have :
1) an exact .info keyword as a domain;
2) low (15-20K) exact matches in global search and low competition between advertisers
3) the only website in the internet that is entirely dedicated to the keyword

How hard will it be to get to the first page of search ?

 

not too hard, few dozens of article links will be enough

 

Well not so difficult to rank it just use quality contents, and avoid black hat.

 

How much content do I need? It is really an extremely narrow topic.

 

What topic is it? Is this it: http://www.olpejetaconservancy.org/ ?

 

no that is my charity work. The topic I am talking about is one of the rare non-organic chemicals. I can dig up 5-7 pages of info about it, without watering it down. Should I smother it into 10-12 pages? If staying with 5-7, I can put all info on 1 page and hopefully it will be better for ranking, no ?

 

Yes divide it in 10-12 pages.

 

The TLD won't matter, but low advertisers doesn't mean much in terms of SEO competition. As it's to do with industry/chemistry/manufacturing or similar then you could be up against some very strong competition. The amount of content isn't as important as the quality of it and getting your on-page SEO right. Obviously, your off-site SEO matters. Advice like, "few dozens of article links will be enough," will get you eaten by Google's animals. Off-site link quantity isn't what is important either, but the quality and (very importantly) relevancy. Not page rank of the pages they are on, but authority of the domains they are coming from. To start off with, you might find guest blogging from relevant blogs helps with some traffic. Don't rely on them too much as high strength links. I say strength, rather than quality, as after all it's guest blogging rather than an editorial given link, but the site owner has also chosen you to post there. The link won't be too strong, but of good quality.

Good luck with whatever you do.

 

I have seen some .info sites are ranking higher, so it is not like before, it works good now.

 

I guess I should clarify what I wrote above: for local search, TLD _does_ matter. But if local is not relevant, then any TLD works (which would be the case for your chemical-related site).

Search for page rank checker and you'll find the top TLD is a .info.

It's all about the SEO, not the TLD.

 

Ha, are you joking?

As much as it takes to get your message across, keep visitors interested and get them to buy whatever you are promoting.

You can rank a site with a single sentence of content, if you have strong enough backlinks.

Be careful with targeting only the single KW.

I don't personally even think about exact match searches, as you mentioned, why would you even care about that? You want to get to the top of the first page, so thats all I look at. How many backlinks have the pages got? Are they targeting your chosen KW - meta tags, anchor text etc etc.

I never buy .infos personally for money sites, only feeder, but I have seen them rank highly so shouldn't be a problem.

 

I use a .info domain. In fact its a static website (html pages, about 4 in total) with unique content, images. Ranks #3 for a medium competitive term. Its all about how you build your SEO strategy for a website.

 

if you have low competition subject, then 20 unique articles will boost your page

just remember, the more content you have, the more index you have. And you have more chance to stay on #1 page

 

in my experience there is no difference between .com and .info if it is not hi competition keyword.

 

I have a .info site that ranks above the official site for the keyword and wikipedia. Although some will say this doesn't make much difference, if the site doesn't have any age, register it for a decent period of time.

 

Not much harder than .org or .net

 

What I have experiment is .info is not better than .com in term of SEO and ranking..

You have to double your effort if you are ranking .info comparing to .com.

 

Just bought an .info domain, but to my surprise, someone told me it is difficult to rank for as compare to .com, .net or .org! Can somebody advise please?

 

Yes its true, compare with .com or particular country extension .info is really hard to promote on SERPs, reason is .info domain just belong to information website not business related website.

 

With all the new extensions, I think this is becoming less of an issue. In the past, .info has been associated with spam domains, mainly because the first year reg can be cheap $0.99+ So people register the domain, use blackhat methods to rank quickly, then dump it just as quickly.

If you are serious about the site, register it for a minimum of two years, make sure the site has decent/unique content and the site is responsive.