In terms of SEO, Does the suffix matter? Like .com or .eu or .es Specifically I'm looking to develop a property website for a town in southern Spain Target audience would be English speakers in northern Europe, like UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Russia etc And does it make any difference as to the location of the server where the website is hosted? Thanks Ken
Yes, TLD and server location play a role in SEO (sometimes it's a pretty significant role). In your specific case you should get the .com and server location won't matter (US, UK would be fine).
I agree with Zexy. You should understand what each means, for example: .com = commercial .net = network .info = information .biz = business (usually home business opp these days) .ws = website and so on
Good point!! Server location does matter and beyond that the extensions don't really matter.. that's what Google tells us anyways. I try to stick to .net's & .com's for our US sites though.
yes its matter and its depends on many things like target country domain name, target country server location and more..
as far as i'm aware, server location only depends on the latency between the visitors and the server. i'd assume just get fast hosting and that should be fine. as far as domain extension goes i don't think it matters what extension it is relating to indexing. just make sure the visitors you're advertising to is familiar with the domain extension, don't bother with obscure one's with odd domain extensions from a foreign, foreign, foreign country.
Local TLDs give you an advantage over global TLDs. Try to optimize a Spanish site using .es and .biz or .info and you will see what I'm talking about.