com vs. net domains, does it makes any difference with adsense ? What would you choose ? Besides adsense ? Thanks.
no difference whatsoever. .com is preferred since non-internet savvy users tend to type .com after your company's name (assuming it's a company). other than that i don't see why would it affect adsense.
There are many people who think there IS a difference of weight put on each domain in the SEs. I'd go with .com to be safe
Even though I don't believe there's any real difference between a .com or a .net (or any other for that matter), I usually just end up buying both if they're available.
Really? And who would those people be? I've never talked with anyone who's been in the industry longer than a few weeks that thinks there's a search related benefit to using a .com vs using a .net address nor have I ever seen any eveidence that would support such a claim.
In terms of Adsense, I don't see how it would make any difference, as the ads served are based on the content, so why would the top level domain make any difference? The only difference I can think of is that some people type .com by default when looking for a site, but that only seems to apply to businesses (i.e. companyname.com). I have several .com/.net/.org domains and I haven't noticed a difference between them in terms of ranking or Adsense.
Look at the top ten for any keyword in google. Mostly .com's right? So is this because people put their big seo emphasis on .com names or is it because google puts more weight on .coms. Thing is, no on really knows. So if you're going between a .net and .com, why risk it? Besides, if I was google and I knew that most people put their "most importantt" sites on .coms, wouldn't this be a good filter to offer better search results? I'm not saying that using other tlds is a bad idea. I predominantly using .infos now. But between a .net and .com, seems an easy one to answer.
I think people could post examples all day of top 10 results with varying numbers of domain extensions. I think most people when getting ready to develop a site always opt for .com first because that's the extension a lot of online consumers are familiar with. I think a .com domain has far more importance in the consumers mind than it does to the search engines.
It makes no difference. What can have an influence is the lenght of a domain registration. Is it registered for a year...therefor taking things lightly or is it registered for 5 years and therefor showing a more serious approach. Extension makes no difference.
Do you really think that the length of registration matters ? If I register domain for 1 year and for 5 years, the PR will be different ? Or adsense in any way ?
the length of registration matters in the sense that Google tend to rank higher domains that are registered for more than a year. the proliferation of SPAM sites (of which the majority of them have registration periods of a year or less) caused Google to sort of 'be suspicious' of domains that have short registration length. of course, this means that genuine sites that are registered for a year or less tend to lose out, so it's better to register for longer years. after all, if you're serious, you will definitely be maintaining the site long enough.
Do you actually have any proof of this? I registered a domain on Monday of this week, by Wednesday it was third in Google for a given set of keywords and it was far above other domains that had been around a lot longer. I haven't bothered to do any SEO on the site either.
G is constantly trying to find new ways to give the best relevant resuts for queries being made trough their search engine, taking the the domain lenght registration period in considderation is only a logical step to make to filter the results as best as possible. Of course it doesn't mean that any site with only one year registration is automaticly doomed to be dropped or not being indexed because other factors play a role as well. Factors that already play a role in SEO optimization. It doesn't automaticly mean instant SEO death, it's just another factor to keep in mind to improve your SERP's. This i have seen discussed nmerous times with the consensus that it does actually play a role in future times if it already doesn't. If you are serious about a site what does those extra couple of tenners matter. (Just saying and not directed to anyone personally).
actually, i do. here's an excerpt from an email i received from GoDaddy.com: of course, it's not an absolute rule. your site probably had good SEO (already) and other facotrs that do come into play.
Devin, what you just posted is nothing more than marketing verbiage from Godaddy with the more than obvious intent to sell domains and get the customers to register several years in adavnce. The actual text of the patent application is: And it's a just patent application. Not every patent that Google holds is in use. If you look at the results of the v7ndotcom elursrebmem SEO contest, new domains are outranking old domains. But that gets into the old sandbox discussion, and that is like discussing the color of air. http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=802
That's not proof, that's a marketing email from GoDaddy, which is also factually inaccurate because you have to register most new domains for a minimum of two years anyway, so spam sites would have an expiration date of over a year in the future in most cases.
okay, my bad. i duly apologise. but still, google applied for that patent, didn't they? it must mean something. godaddy lets you register a domain for a year too.
Applying for a patent really doesn't say anything about the companies current strategy. Patent applications are filed for a variety of reasons including confusion of your competition. Also, if done properly, it can be up to a year before the public can even see the patent application. Anyway, SE's don't care if you have a .com or .net domain. However, if you are looking for repeat business/traffic, .com domains are more likely to be remembered than .net domains.