.com domain is much more catchy and got high ranking as compare to .info site, I haven't seen .info website in top 10 searches of google yet!!
Total NON SENSE, from someone who just repeats blindly what he reads on the internet without doing his own experiments, and now thinks he is an expert, but really, you are the clueless one my friend, i am not trying to be a jerk here, but i really don't appreciate your attitude and arrogance toward others in this thread, telling others they are clueless while you are the ignorant one here (at least ignorant about this specific subject : the advantage of certain tlds over others in a lot of different scenarios) let's do this, WOULD YOU BE READY TO PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS ?. wanna bet ? I Officially challenge you with 2000 dollars, to be transferred by both of us to a third person here on Digitalpoint (someone we can trust, a mod maybe). then we do this: we agree on a very easy keyword, a keyword easy to the point where the .com version of this keyword is available, then we register both .com and .info and we host them on two separate US hosting accounts. Let's say the keyword is Videos of Barack Obama, we register [B]http://www.VideosOfBarackObama.com/[/B] and [B]http://www.VideosOfBarackObama.info/[/B] in the same time , according to your logic, both of them have the same value from a SEO perspective, and both of them are exact matches of the targeted keywords, therefore according to your theory again, they are equivalent). The on-page optimization will be the same, also just 1 article of the same lenght on each site and 3 Youtube video links (to the same videos) embedded after the article. After that we build just 1 forum links for each and submit both sites to Google, just to get them indexed (i don't want you to argue later that the .com outranked the info because of better links, so no links, just get them indexed with 1 forum links for each (from the same forum). we then wait 1 to two weeks for the sites to get indexed, and another 30 days to judge the rankings, if in 45 DAYS the .COM outranks the .INFO, (my guess is that the .COM will be top 10 to top 5 already and the .info will be miles away; nowhere in the top 100 MAP) but the exact position doesn't matter anyway as long as the .COM wins. So if what i say happens, then i would have proved that the .COM has an algorithmic edge over the .info and i get the 4000 DOLLARS , if the contrary happens you get the 4k and my public apologies. NOW, Are you WILLING to put your money where your mouth is ? (and don't tell me you don't have 2000 dollars to play with, since obviously, being the great SEO that you are, you should be making loads of cash ) Let's see
I don't have time for games. My assertion is based on 8 years of experience, the fact that I get loads of pm's for work from posts like that and my linkwheel comments and that you can't find anyone in the top tier seo demographic that concurs with you. It's really that simple. And yes, I make quite a bit of cash. "Those who Can't DO, TRY TO TEACH " Personal attacks will get you no where fast with me. Nigel
if you are so confident in your knowledge which is based on 8 years of experience and have a a lot of cash, why don't you accept my challenge ? you have plenty of time to post around in Digitalpoint everyday, but you don't have time to make a Quick 2000 dollars ? (the experiment will take 1 hour to implement).
Your wasting your breath sir. I am about as inclined to respond to this as I am join a pointless SEO contest. If you would like to refute my position with some metrics, feel free. I am all for a bit of discourse. I intimated, no clearly stated actually, that I will expound on my position when I have a moment. And sure, I likely have a dp window along with ten others open pretty much 24-7. Nigel
LOL, i have just OFFERED you the Only true Metric Solution to prove your theory, which is "Experimentation" in the Real World, two Real Websites, who cares about your pointless, baseless, theoretical explanations? if you want to continue dreaming and speculating in wonder land, go ahead, but seriously, you have just declined a 1 hour experiment to make 2000 dollars? do you really expect anyone to take your claims seriously now ? wake up and Get rid of your arrogance, STOP misleading newbies and making false claims and then calling people clueless, be willing to learn, this exercise which you have just Shamefully declined could have taught you a very valuable lesson and the truth about tlds, unlike you; i have already one my homework and experimented with tens of ltds from .ws to .vg to infos for years. none of my INFO sites has performed anywhere near a .COM or even a .NET.
Sorry but you are simply wrong. This has been beaten to death around here. Right below this post as well. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1588886 I don't mislead anyone. I tell folks how to do things properly. Nigel
ok enough of this non sense, i am out of here, come back to me when you are ready to put your money where your mouth is.
I don't think domain really effect you. but If your targeting people from a specific location than it might count. But domains like .com .info .org .net etc. doesnt really make difference if you have good SEO.