The theory would be that they are charity sites and non-commercial sites get a bit of an advantage (I don't believe this what-so-ever of course). The real question is if Google gives a disadvantaged weighting to purely commercial sites which could look like a boost to .org's when looking at the SERPs They are usually lumped in with .edu but thats a completely different story. Matt Cutts has his comments on the ".edu bonus" on his blog.
The point about .org and .edu links is that the sites are usually quite old, have strong incoming links and have fewer outgoing links than commercial sites. Therefore each outgoing link from a PR6 .edu domain on average has a higher value than if it was on a PR6 .com domain. Obviously there are many exceptions to this.
There is no difference between .org and .com in that respect. Anyone want to point me to the comments about the ".edu bonus" ?
Matt Cutts recently said there is no such thing as a edu or org boost. There's a thread on it here somewhere.. Tried to find it but no luck. Goes something like "another SEO myth busted", I think it was Dominic who posted it. When I googled for it I did find this weird DP link: http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=...bonus+site:digitalpoint.com&btnG=Search&meta= See the top one, the URL is all messed up.
I read the thread. I have never had any doubt that .edu can be worth more than other links. There are PLENTY of bad educational establishments out there - I see no reason why their information would be better than anyone elses. Amazes me that common sense can be avoided by so many.
.org has no credibility, anyone can register. .org.au (Australia) has no advantage in my experience - you do need to be a legit charity to get them... even then, no advantage. Matt Cutts has said .gov and .edu domains don't get a boost in the serps simply because of their domain extension. So, I'm pretty certain that if you can take Matt's comment as fact, you can include .org and .org.country-code as being in the same it don't make a difference sentence. It's harder to build a domain brand with a .org or a .org.au as the public is less net savvy and can hardly recall a .com.au instead of just a straight .com domain.
I think many people would dispute that government pages have any more ligitamate data than .com pages...after all the conspiracy theories about manipulated government data...
i have read it somewhere that .com has more value in SERPS than others , can anyone tell me if this is true.
No it's not true. For now, .com sites are probably more familiar, at least to those in North America (I suspect in the UK .co.uk is already more recognized and in Australia .com.au) but I don't think that will endure much longer. In Canada, the recognition factor for .ca is growing rapidly at the moment. But when it comes to SEO and search engine rankings, the extension doesn't matter at all, beyond the potential advantage in regional Googles already mentioned above.
Can you explain ".edu bonus"? As well as Which one is better? A paid link from .com site or a simple link from .org site? Consider that both the sites have good (similar) page rank. Thnx in advance...
Any one can buy a .com domain. Any one can buy a .org domain. There is no ".org bonus" relative to a .com site.
Most people, when they see .org or .edu rank high think: "oh, that's because they have a org or edu TLD!" That's not true at all, these websites are universities,fundations etc, thus very famous and get a lot of links. If they chose to have a .com, I bet their rankings would have been the same...