.info any good for search engines ? bcos most of them are used to spam ! making a site with .info is any good ? do we get serp ? Thanks
Search engines do not appear to descriminate against various top level domains. I personally feel users do. Shannon
I agree, Shannon. The traditional domain extensions -- .com, .net, .org -- and the established regional domain extensions -- .ca, .co.uk, .com.au, .de, etc. -- do I think still have an advantage in terms of familiarity and "consumer confidence". This, of course, may change as time goes on and the other extensions become more common but it will also depend on the ratio of "crap to content" for sites using those domains.
When I look at two domains with same name I feel like the .com has more history but not a better site really? Mark
I have an info domain that does rather well, and it sells the product. I didn't think it would. It does have contact address and phone on every page, maybe this has something to do with it. It's not a spammy site either, at least I don't think so....
I don't think the issue is that .info sites ARE necessarily spammy or "lower quality" than sites with other extensions... the concern may be that they might be PERCEIVED to be so. The reality is that good .com domain names are harder and harder to find - that's why we have a variety of new extensions like .info and .biz - and in time I don't think people will look at the newer extensions any differently than the original big 3-5 ones. It also doesn't make any difference to SEO factors. It's simply a matter of general public perception now. If I have a choice currently of the same domain as a .com or .info site, there is no question at all in my mind that I will take the .com version. If I had to choose between a good domain name with a .info extension versus a not so good one with a .com extension, I'd need to think about a few factors, such as what the website using the .com version was about (and whether it was even live or just parked as a spec name) and, in my case, I'd probably also be considering the .ca version.
SEO experts recommend .com domains as .info don't carry the same weight in googles eyes for some reason. . .
.info wouldn't hurt, but I think that .com is the best. Maybe you can use .info only if your product is small and leave your bigger sites to the .com