Domain Extension?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by seoindia, Jul 18, 2005.

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    Does taking .com as domain extension has any seo advantage. I think that it doesnt matter whether we take .net or .in or any other domain extension. Moreover these days its very hard to found any promotional friendly domain with .com as most of them are taken..
     
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  2. jorge

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    it is probably the same thing, no reason to believe otherwise
     
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    As far as SEO is concerned, the top-level domain you use gives no benefits nor penalties. However, if you use a country-code domain such as .IN, it almost guarantees your site will be included in the local search for that country.
     
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  4. seoindia

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    Yeh thats what i believe too but its sometime pretty hard to make the customers understand the same. Everybody prefers .com. So i think that if a promotional friendly domain is available with any suitable extension like .net or any country specific one should go for it.

    What about info domains. Do a general b2b commercial website hosted with info extension suffers from any disadvantage or backlisting...
     
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    .Com is the best way to go, for the end users. The search engines don't care. :)
     
    someonewhois, Jul 18, 2005 IP