I'm not exactly sure where to put this question, but this seems a good enough place. I have a few ideas for new sites that I'd like to try. How important is it to have a top level domain for a site? For instance, I'm thinking about starting a new blog at some point. I could go the easy/free way and throw it up on Blogger or weblogs.us, and save the cost of the domain and hosting. Easy enough to throw it away if it fails miserably. But then if it's wildly successful (I can dream), I'm kind of stuck with myblog.weblogs.us. Also means I'm stuck with weblogs.us, and if they go away or something, I'm hosed. I'm assuming here that it would be a very bad thing to go and change my domain name after a site is already established. I'd have to start over with the search engines and such. Well, maybe I've pretty much answered my own question here. I should probably suck it up and pay the $6-9 for a new domain. Anyone disagree? Cheers, Gary
why don't you use a subdomain for your blog... i don't think it matters... I have the setup: http://www.photos2view.com/ - My Sydney Photography websiteand then a subdomain: http://blog.photos2view.com/. If you visit both of them, you may notice that the tld actually has a lower PR than my blog?! And the blog has only started in August. Whereas my tld website has been up since 2001 or so...
Yeah that makes sense. I wasn't actually worried about the SEO value of a tld vs a subdomain, but rather the wisdom of throwing up a blog using someone else's tld. e.g. myblog.weblogs.us. -Gary
i have few sub-domain and it not rank high in Yahoo ... but other normal domain rank high... i think yahoo prefer top level domain