SEO .com vs .info

OK i was wondering 2 things and how they can effect your serps in google.

1. what is the differnce with .com and .info is there in rules or guidlines on what a .info site should be??

2. keyword.info vs keyword.com i know that if you have a domain that is what people are looking for by typing it in google and searching the keyword.com if devloped should appear number one or have better chances of ranking high for it. Does it matter if its a .info or .com or .anyhting for that matter??

This is somthing i was thinking about the other night and decided to post it here since im sure to find my answers here.

 

so it does not matter if its .info or .com both have equal chance at ranking in serps?

 

yeah... but if one day I visit your kawaga.info site and like it... and a week later I want to visit it again, I am 99.9% sure that I would end up typing the .com extension instead. Believe it or not, I have several domains with an info extension and many times have I ended up at the .com site because I never noticed what I typed.


.com is still the king.

 

Yes they will both have an equal chance, but the .com is more rememberable.

 

until control-enter doesn't take you to www.domain.com i'll only register a .com

 

great replys thanks for the .info hehe bad pwn lol

 

Also, try and not make your website offer similar things that the .com extension would have. Otherwise people will visit your competitors!!

 

I once bought the .net and .info domains for a particular keyword and placed the same content on both - for a while.
The .net domain ranked much better on Google, while the .info domain got sandboxed.
I believe it had to do with duplicate content, and Google chose the .net domain as the "original" one

 

extensions only matter in country codes.
for example someone searching for "british coffee" is more likely to come up with a .co.uk than a .com
it also depends on location of the searcher. however if you are optmizing fr north america it doesnt matter. but go with the .com

 

Bobby that is true, but one of the bigger factors are whether you are hosted in the country or not. A Site hosted in the UK using .co.uk may rank better than one hosted at a godaddy account in Arizona using a .co.uk domain. (all things being equal of course)

 

right you are!

 

I took a while to show you an example of why i'd pick a .com over a .info and stuff...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=new+york+transportation&btnG=Google+Search

Notice the official site which is the .info one mta.info is ranked 5 or something. :|

Hope this helps you make your decision, props