OK i was wondering 2 things and how they can effect your serps in google. 1. what is the differnce with .com and .info is there in rules or guidlines on what a .info site should be?? 2. keyword.info vs keyword.com i know that if you have a domain that is what people are looking for by typing it in google and searching the keyword.com if devloped should appear number one or have better chances of ranking high for it. Does it matter if its a .info or .com or .anyhting for that matter?? This is somthing i was thinking about the other night and decided to post it here since im sure to find my answers here.
Top level domain extensions do not matter to Google. As I said in recent post, think it is users who discriminate based on extensions. Shannon
Yes. But always buy the dot com, net, or org if you can get. People are more familiar with them. Shannon
yeah... but if one day I visit your kawaga.info site and like it... and a week later I want to visit it again, I am 99.9% sure that I would end up typing the .com extension instead. Believe it or not, I have several domains with an info extension and many times have I ended up at the .com site because I never noticed what I typed. .com is still the king.
Also, try and not make your website offer similar things that the .com extension would have. Otherwise people will visit your competitors!!
I once bought the .net and .info domains for a particular keyword and placed the same content on both - for a while. The .net domain ranked much better on Google, while the .info domain got sandboxed. I believe it had to do with duplicate content, and Google chose the .net domain as the "original" one
extensions only matter in country codes. for example someone searching for "british coffee" is more likely to come up with a .co.uk than a .com it also depends on location of the searcher. however if you are optmizing fr north america it doesnt matter. but go with the .com
Bobby that is true, but one of the bigger factors are whether you are hosted in the country or not. A Site hosted in the UK using .co.uk may rank better than one hosted at a godaddy account in Arizona using a .co.uk domain. (all things being equal of course)
I took a while to show you an example of why i'd pick a .com over a .info and stuff... http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=new+york+transportation&btnG=Google+Search Notice the official site which is the .info one mta.info is ranked 5 or something. :| Hope this helps you make your decision, props