I have a few .info that do ok but for me it's like a full 80% take forever to get indexed and then stay up sporatically. I am doing tests now to see if .info is a waste of time. I usually buy a domain and then grab the info for a buck. All it seems to do is make more renews in my mailbox. Not very often do .info domain names perform as good as .com or .net or .orgs. I really have been looking into this all week. I am still not sure (self doubt the webmasters shadow) i am shying away from them in the future. I know for a fact more than 75% of the time they are unreliable and a waste of marketing effort if you have allot of domains. So i guess i think it does matter.
Hello, today I hate google much more yesterday. My .info have (had) really important #1 keyword about travel destinations. Yesterday my site was 280° today 45° for the must important #1 keyword. 80% of my unique content I don't know where is. Last monday I had 7651/ daily unique visitors and the time of indicizzation of a new content was less 24 hours.... Today I have a site of class C, 20visitors/hour 8 from google. See I attach, my WORK vanished.. I'am desperate
Look at austria.info for 'austria' - it is on second position in google. I also have a couple of .info domain and one of them is doing really good. The other one doesnt rank so well, but this is normal since I've never finished its content and dont really have time to take care of it... Still it brings some PPC money, although nothing from sales. Overall I do not think domain extension has any influence over the rankings in any SE.
Ok abraxas, It is true. But I don't know why new algo robbed me the traffic that the old algo give me.
http://www.seobook.com/google-temporarily-purges-info-domain-names The question came up about whether it matters which TLD (top level domain) you’re using. For example, do .com domains carry more weight than a .net, .us, .info, etc. He said that TLD doesn’t matter–that’s the way Larry and Sergey originally designed the Google algorithm. The algorithm doesn’t care where the page is located, it’s all about pagerank (LINKS) of the particular page. At the end of answering this question he did admit that they might have started to look at particularly cheap (and spammy) TLDs differently than other TLDs–or they might start considering TLD in their algorithm if they’re not already doing so. http://www.seo.com/blog/google/matt-cutts-does-domain-roundtable/ http://seozombie.com/info-domains-are-different/
My original intent of the post was to find out what it takes for a .info to get on the first page. If you don't wish to disclose your names or search terms, can you answer this 1. When were the domains registered 2. How many backlinks you have and if any are from high PR or trusted sites