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.info VS .com really matter in term of SEO?

by Daniel F. Lavoie
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Does .info are inferior to .com in term of SEO or it's equal and I'm banging my head for nothing?

Regards,
Dan
#dot com #dot info #info #matter #seo #term
  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    There was a big discussion on this recently. People are pretty dogmatic on both sides usually. IMO I would take a .com 100 out of 100 times. If there is nothing else available then choose the .info
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  • Profile picture of the author seo_submission
    well i would go for .com instead of .info Well .com is good for seo then .info .

    Much always go for .com
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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel F. Lavoie
      My main keywords are taken for the .com for this project.

      Do I simply go with a dot com with a prefix (or a suffix) or a choose an dot info with my exact keywords?

      Also, I have to say that this new website is only to rank high on the search engine to get leads to my other websites for my niche business. I think it's an important point to add.

      Thanks guys for your answer.
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      • Profile picture of the author Marko Vel
        Originally Posted by Daniel F. Lavoie View Post

        My main keywords are taken for the .com for this project.

        Do I simply go with a dot com with a prefix (or a suffix) or a choose an dot info with my exact keywords?

        Also, I have to say that this new website is only to rank high on the search engine to get leads to my other websites for my niche business. I think it's an important point to add.

        Thanks guys for your answer.
        Why not, go with a longtail keyword.
        Once i tried to rank .info and to be honest with you it goes really slowly.
        Just my opinion.
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  • Profile picture of the author chollas
    It's worth mentioning that .info's are heavily spammed due to their low cost.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by chollas View Post

      It's worth mentioning that .info's are heavily spammed due to their low cost.
      And you know this because......?

      Dot coms are dirt cheap as well. Actually, it was dot biz that used
      to be the "spammed" extension. That thought is so 2005.

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author NiyazK
    I would prefer .com as i think they rank soon and better than the .info's and other TLD's.. Its my opinion. Experts out here will have better answers
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  • Profile picture of the author chini
    i have personally noticed from experience that .info is much harder then ranking a .com .org or .net Google doesn't give the domain the same love
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  • Profile picture of the author socialmediawarrior
    Go with the .com - always! The next choices are .net / .org. The problem with .info domains are that they tend to stay in the Google sandbox for a longer time and may never come out of it if there are any issues with the content. As has been stated already, .info domains have somewhat lost their credibility with search engines as well as users.
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  • Profile picture of the author enderZ
    It is hard to give a definite answer, not many bought the same domain name with diff (.com/.info) and SEOed it for the same kwd and checked its ranking...

    I have several .info domains #1 for medium competition kwds, would they be higher if they were .com? Only G knows...

    I say: if you buy a test domain/bulk purchases bbuy .info, if you want to establish a money site, why take the risk that the .info will rank lower? the 6$ diff just not wort it!
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    • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
      I just love cargo cult SEO.

      Originally Posted by socialmediawarrior View Post

      GThe problem with .info domains are that they tend to stay in the Google sandbox for a longer time and may never come out of it if there are any issues with the content. As has been stated already, .info domains have somewhat lost their credibility with search engines as well as users.
      Originally Posted by chini View Post

      i have personally noticed from experience that .info is much harder then ranking a .com .org or .net Google doesn't give the domain the same love
      Originally Posted by jpf239 View Post

      I read that the .info tends to be taken as a big spammer extension .
      Originally Posted by chollas View Post

      It's worth mentioning that .info's are heavily spammed due to their low cost.
      Originally Posted by Marko Vel View Post

      Once i tried to rank .info and to be honest with you it goes really slowly.
      Originally Posted by seo_submission View Post

      Well .com is good for seo then .info .
      Search for the following terms...

      pagerank checker
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      new york transit
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      regular expressions
      move your money

      Let me know when you beat them with your new .com domain
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

        I just love cargo cult SEO.
        That's good! Just shows that a lot of people just don't
        read any answers before posting.

        If anybody in the google pagerank niche can unseat
        prchecker.info, that would be one of the biggest SEO
        conquests ever.

        Speaking of extensions, I just read that dot bz is up and
        coming. Go figure.

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      • Profile picture of the author theentry
        Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

        I just love cargo cult SEO.













        Search for the following terms...

        pagerank checker
        Noam Chomsky
        roman coins
        new york transit
        craft ideas
        regular expressions
        move your money

        Let me know when you beat them with your new .com domain
        Heh nice one. But I still you have a better start with a com domain
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  • Profile picture of the author Nintendo
    Hmmm, I started setting up a .info auto-blog site this week. I gave the site ONE tiny little freaking link, at Twitter. BAM!! With in minutes Google found the site, and quickly indexed a few pages. This was yesterday, and it didn't just get a few pages and leave. 34 pages are now index...and I don't even freaken want the site crawled yet!!!! I'm not even done with the site!! Heck, the domain was registered less than a week ago!!!

    Obviously any one who bashes .info extensions has never really tried them, or doesn't know how to get index by Google that well. I got another little .info domain that has 364 pages indexed, and Google's been all over that baby. Lately it's been crawling the site day in and day out!! I can just guess how many pages will be indexed when the next update comes. I simply used my YouTube videos to give that site links.

    All it takes is some good back-links on authority sites and bam, Google doesn't give a rats-rear-end what the extension is. Oh, and these links are almost completely no-follow links!!!

    Oh, and did I mention, all my domains have the exact same IP address??!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author woodymcgrath
    In my experience, for a .com site and a .info site with the exact same content and exact same backlinks,promotional methods, the .com always comes up above .info
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  • Profile picture of the author loginname
    I'm setting up 5 autoblogs, Have registered 5 .info domains. Already set up one .info blog. These blogs will only be used to get my backlinks indexed. Wonder if I should register .com domains for the 4 other autoblogs. Remember the idea of these blogs is not to rank high in google, but to get my backlinks indexed. I started out with .info because the Backlink Index Express guide recommended .info domains because they are so cheap. Wonder if I should use .com instead?
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  • Profile picture of the author FreshPLR
    I think it is more important to focus on what comes before the dot rather than after the dot.

    Having your site keyword concept in the domain name and writing quality, relevant, keyword focused content pages is more important than what comes after the dot.
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  • Profile picture of the author mayorlan
    From my experience,within less than a month of setting up some .info domains,I have outranked millions of a .com pages and even established website within 3 weeks! and also outranked mostly .com sites to top spot on google for 2 keywords within a week,so tell me the difference between .info and .com.All this is just a myth people have peddled all this while without testing out.Just get your promotion effort right and you are on.
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  • Profile picture of the author JulioGarabot
    I found this in other thread about Seomoz comparing ranking domains and they don't even mention .info
    SEOmoz | Are Exact Match Domains Too Powerful? Is Their Time Limited?
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