Can You Dominate Top 10 in Goolge with FREE Domain like (.co.cc)?

[wordpresstrainingpackage]

Free domains are available online to help people with little resources have their own websites. Free domains are also useful if you want to test the performance of a website in a niche before buying your domain name for a full website. If you are also running PPC campaign, a free domain can be useful.

There are many free domain names. Now the question is if you could gain top search engine ranking with a free domain name like .co.cc. You may want to create a site using the wordpress platform on a free domain name. How about SEO factor? How will the site perform with Google SERP? Can you reach top 10 position in google.com with free domain.?

What you should know is that a free domain name like co.cc is not a TLD (top level domain). It is a subdomain. The .cc is the TLD. The disadvantage of this is that this is for free. Concerning SEO Trust/Authority of the host domain is important. Most free domains are subdomains and most of them are used by spammers and Black Hatters to do all kinds of things in order to make money online at all cost. Therefore, these domains lose credibility before the search engines and any website under them is not given priority in search ranking, irrespective of whether your own free domain website is legitimate or not.

You may be wondering what happens to sites hosted under free domains like blogspot and wordpress. What these domains enjy is the credibility. Blogspot blogs are always investigated by Google and any blog seen to be a spam blog is deleted. Google has control over blogspot blogs and that is why free domain sites using blogspot can rank high in the top 10. Wordpress sites enjoy credibility and authority. Hence, your free domain site can still rank well here.

[bidtraffic]

Well use your own experiences in searching for information. Have you ever seen a .co.cc domain name in the first page of google?

I can tell you.... I haven't.

[mooble]

i can't ever remember seeing those types of domains on the first page of google, or hardly anywhere in my google experience before.

[brandonbaker]

I don't see why not. Can you imagine Google refusing to rank a top notch authority site? It wouldn't be in line with their goal, to provide quality results to their users.

I can't say whether it'd be easier or harder, but I'm almost positive it isn't impossible.

[wordpresstrainingpackage]

Thought it is not always accepted openly, most search engines favor some domain names over others. In most cases, domain names with bad track record are ignored. Dot info domain names are now being used for all kinds of spamming and black hats that search engines frown on all websites under the .info domain

[bidtraffic]

.info might not be the most professional domain name, but those on the other hand, I have seen in the top ten results on google. $0.99 goes a long way.

Dont go the cheap route. I'll pay off in the long run.

[wordpresstrainingpackage]

Another problem with free domains is that they have restrictions. They limit bandwidth, place ads on your sites, etc.

[wordpresstrainingpackage]

The $0.99 is what make .info domain to be classified as a free domain. Majority of the .info sites are used for spamming and backlink generation. Most of them are not for creating money-making sites. Do a thorough research and you would discover that .info sites are meant to support real money sites. I believe that search engines still have some sort of disdain for them.

Originally Posted by bidtraffic

.info might not be the most professional domain name, but those on the other hand, I have seen in the top ten results on google. $0.99 goes a long way.

Dont go the cheap route. I'll pay off in the long run.

[smart_ladoo]

yes it could be possible, i have seen on 2 nd or 3rd page. I guess domain google shouldnt care domain ext

[wordpresstrainingpackage]

Google should not care about domain extension but the way some domains are used makes search engines to really care. People rush towards .info domains because you can easily create thousands of sites with them for your short term needs.

.info domains cost less than $1 in the first year and more than $10 from the 2nd year. This is one of the factors that make the domain used for short term purposes by those who buy in bulk. The .info sites are then placed on different IP addresses in order to deceive the search engines. People who do this know they have nothing to lose by creating thousands of sites with this domain in order to get thousands of one-way backlinks to their sites.

In most cases the .info sites are de-indexed but that is after the owners have achieved their aim in getting some temporary plenty backlinks and huge traffic to the main sites.

Originally Posted by smart_ladoo

yes it could be possible, i have seen on 2 nd or 3rd page. I guess domain google shouldnt care domain ext

[mr.g-dh]

I don't know why, but co.cc ranks very, very poorly

[smart_ladoo]

Originally Posted by wordpresstrainingpackage

Google should not care about domain extension but the way some domains are used makes search engines to really care. People rush towards .info domains because you can easily create thousands of sites with them for your short term needs.

.info domains cost less than $1 in the first year and more than $10 from the 2nd year. This is one of the factors that make the domain used for short term purposes by those who buy in bulk. The .info sites are then placed on different IP addresses in order to deceive the search engines. People who do this know they have nothing to lose by creating thousands of sites with this domain in order to get thousands of one-way backlinks to their sites.

In most cases the .info sites are de-indexed but that is after the owners have achieved their aim in getting some temporary plenty backlinks and huge traffic to the main sites.

let me check, i will let u know, i can see the .com domain got only preferable for browsing capability wat about google its really matter

[dburk]

Hi wordpresstrainingpackage,

Your TLD is not a factor in SEO except for localization of specific country codes.


@mooble

Try doing a search for the keyword "free domain names" and see what you get!

[wordpresstrainingpackage]

I am not saying TLD is a factor. What I am saying is that the way some domain name extension are used could affect the way search engines give priority to such domains in search results. If a particular domain name extension is generally used for spam sites, search engines would definitely want to avoid sites carrying such domains.

Search engines make money through search results and they would continue to do all they can to protect the source of that income. No search engine would want to just be displaying spam blogs in its search results.

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi wordpresstrainingpackage,

Your TLD is not a factor in SEO except for localization of specific country codes.


@mooble

Try doing a search for the keyword "free domain names" and see what you get!

[Wi]

What's Goolge?

[dburk]

Originally Posted by wordpresstrainingpackage

I am not saying TLD is a factor. What I am saying is that the way some domain name extension are used could affect the way search engines give priority to such domains in search results. If a particular domain name extension is generally used for spam sites, search engines would definitely want to avoid sites carrying such domains.

Search engines make money through search results and they would continue to do all they can to protect the source of that income. No search engine would want to just be displaying spam blogs in its search results.

Hi wordpresstrainingpackage,

Since Dot coms are used for spam more than any other TLD, should search engines avoid carrying such domains?

I think search engines are much more granular in their approach. They can detect relevance and usefulness down to the individual page level, why would they want to dilute that level of precision with an over-generalization of TLDs?

[fortony]

Anything is possible on the internet if you put enough into it. Considering the fact that you normally do not see such domains on the top, it must be much harder. Of course, location and the like make a difference though.

[wordpresstrainingpackage]

I dont agree with you that dot coms are used for spam more than other TLD. A dot info costs less than $1.00 in the first year while a dot com costs about $10.00, making it easier for spammers to purchase thousands of dot info domains on different IP addresses. Dot com domains are usually the main money sites while the dot info domains are used to create thousands of backlinks for the dot com.

Of course, search engines work by relevance. However, they are also biased when it comes to certain domains commonly being used for creating spam sites.

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi wordpresstrainingpackage,

Since Dot coms are used for spam more than any other TLD, should search engines avoid carrying such domains?

I think search engines are much more granular in their approach. They can detect relevance and usefulness down to the individual page level, why would they want to dilute that level of precision with an over-generalization of TLDs?

[nikkitong]

I think it's simply a matter of backlinks. If you have the right ones, you can dominate the SERPs with any (free) domain...

[wordpresstrainingpackage]

Yes. Backlinks are the real movers. However, backlinks will work against you if the search engines discover that your backlinks are not natural. How?

1. If you grow thousands of backlinks overnight, it can be easily seen that those backlinks are not natural

2. If the backlinks are not relevant to the theme of your site. This is especially the case if you grow do-follow backlinks instead of being concerned with backlinks from sites within your niche.

Originally Posted by nikkitong

I think it's simply a matter of backlinks. If you have the right ones, you can dominate the SERPs with any (free) domain...

[dburk]

Originally Posted by wordpresstrainingpackage

Of course, search engines work by relevance. However, they are also biased when it comes to certain domains commonly being used for creating spam sites.

Do you mean TLDs? Says who? I have never heard a search engine rep say this, I have never seen any evidence of this. Where do you get this information from?

[wordpresstrainingpackage]

That is the fact about the way search engines work. Take blogger blogs for example. If you create a blogger blog full of just links and no content, the blog will be deleted under 24 hours. Google bots crawl blogger blogs often and the bots keep a log of how blogger blogs containing spam content. Google then takes action immediately. This is because Google has control over blogger blogs and using the blog platform to create spam sites is not acceptable to them.

In the case of your own sites, Google does not have control over the content you put on your domain names. However, based on reports from Google bots, Google keeps a statistics of sites which are just spam. Then from there they can determine the domain names often used as spam sites. Remember that Google does not have control over your site but they can make the bots to no longer visit your sites for crawling.

Because of the limitations being placed on completely free domain names, people resort to dot info domain for creating hundreds and thousands of sites for building one-way backlinks to their sites. This is where the search engines come in again. Google, for example, knows the quality of each site the Google bots visit. What Google does is that sites under the domain name commonly used for spamming are not given priority in the search results. This is in addition to the fact that majority of the sites are not often visited.

Have you ever wondered why Google does not crawl your site for several weeks after you updated the site? Have you ever wondered why some pages of your website just vanished from the Google index? Think about these questions and answer them yourself.

Originally Posted by dburk

Do you mean TLDs? Says who? I have never heard a search engine rep say this, I have never seen any evidence of this. Where do you get this information from?

[Mone4ever]

I've seen .co.cc hit the google top ten...granted, I could probably count the times I've seen this happen with my fingers but wouldn't it be better to use a sub-domain. I don't really know. I'm actually asking if anyone knows whether that would be a better alternative.

[JSProjects]

Just go for a .info domain instead. They're usually just a buck or two. When it's time to renew it will be at the normal cost. (Usually about $10.) But if it's doing well then it's not a problem. Otherwise you're out just a few bucks at the most.

[faceblogger]

Yes. With too much of link building

[friendclk]

Google does not take into account what TLD your domain is. It does not matter!

[kennygoodman]

.co.cc is probably a ccTLD and unless it has been recognised by Google as a global domain like .tv and .co then it will not gain traction in any other countries other than Cocos Islands or what ever country it is designated to. The extension - .co.cc may also affect conversion - it is not instantly recognisable and therefore will lose trust with more savvy buyers so would not give you an accurate test for PPC


Kenny

[Mr Lim]

Why not, I saw some xxx.blogspot dot com dominate the top 10 on google with keyword that has 5k exact search.