Is .ws bad for SEO ?

Very often while searching for domains before buying , i find that only .ws is left ..

I want to know if .ws is a bad extention for SERPS and the others are better than it .

thx

 

Of course they aren't. Why would a search engine discriminate against a certain contry's TLD?

 

Not bad at all. I have a .ws site that produces very well and ranks very well in yahoo/msn for some extremely competitive terms. Still sandboxed (or whatever flavor the term is used today) with google.

Treat it like you would any other site with good content, good seo and good backlinks and it will reward you well.

I'm in the process of setting up some additional keyword rich .ws sites as well.

 

ok then , thx .. I thought .com is better than .ws

 

I'm using .info's primarily now. But here's a quick test I did to see which domains google may like better. Look up any term in google and check out the tld's in the top 10. Which appears the most?

Not that this is a fullproof test by any means, but it's just one way to look at it

 

.coms have been around longer and also nobody develops a serious website with a .info extension, that's the big part of it.

I don't know of any major companies or websites with a .info, .ws, .ca etc. domain name. Also, most people "assume" websites all have a .com extension - hence another reason major companies usually go with a .com

Theirs no seo advantage reguardless of the extension, only good marketing strategies to lean towards a .com

 

i asked a similar question at askdavetaylor and here is what he replied:

sorry but i still cant post links, that's why i quoted.

 

Nice post and interesting answer. If most people and companies give more weight to .coms, only putting trust in these and hence companies putting their "serious" sites on them, if I were google I'd weight them higher specifically because of this.

 

well i have come to the conclusion that all the extentions have same value ... .com is not more valuable then .net or .net is not more than .ws

If for example i am targetting a specific keyword , i will buy keyword.ws if only .ws is left .. i will not buy bestkeyword.com instead

 

i find it that it is the users that discriminate on the extensions, for example if I myself see a .ws extension id click on the .com

 

that's true, i always go for dot com before some other, but even i bought .cc because it was easier to remember belgrade. cc than for example belgradeinsideout. com (my previous address) in case i tell it to a person directly...
only problem is that according to this answer search engines see it as less valuable than .com , but it's still not sure.

 

I was thinking about the same thing previously and missed out on some great .ws names because of that misconception.

 

.ws is good enough. Not good for branding perposes as most people dont remember it well, but for online linking and such will do the job.