.co for SEO purposes?

[chrisrwallace]

Has anyone used a .co extension and if they have, what kind of success did they get with it or how did it compare to the .com's and .net's... I saw a thread the other day about the .info and was curious about this one...

[Ian Varnava]

Couldn't give you any solid info as I haven't messed with them much... I do have one .co in the dating niche... exact match for a 10k+ monthly highly competitive term, and it's ranking on the 3rd page right in Google. It's a high quality site with quality content, and that's about it. I haven't built any backlinks to it whatsoever, nor have I optimized the website to rank for that particular term (the site was made for PPC and POF advertising).

So based on that tiny experience of mine, I know I can get it to page 1 with some link-building and optimization when I get around to it. Other than that, from what I've always read (though not always seen), the extension doesn't matter, search engines don't favor one extension over the other. But like I said, in my and many others' experience on this forum and elsewhere; .com, .net, and .org are preferred.

[James Schramko]

I have some .co and have seen some ranking well.
.com, .net .org are preferred.

Remember to tell Google Webmaster tools what market you
want to rank in.

[garyseo786]

not have any idea about .co domains so will be interesting to read some more replies here on this thread

[MarathonMan]

.CO is no better or worse then any of the other hundreds of county domains, like .SG, .IT, etc etc.

[IcedSEO-CEO]

Originally Posted by chrisrwallace

Has anyone used a .co extension and if they have, what kind of success did they get with it or how did it compare to the .com's and .net's... I saw a thread the other day about the .info and was curious about this one...

Well, I have used them and I can tell you... they are simply no good for SEO, trust me on this. I even hate .info though some people seem to recommend them a little bit. Just stick your ass with .com, .net and .org and get that extra juice except if you know what you are doing in SEO

[Jimmy AL]

The description of .co is "just like .com". I wouldn't buy one. Try and find a more relevant .com domain name. You don't have to give the exact keyword match, do you?

[Headfirst]

I have a three letter exact match .co that works quite well for me.

I'm sitting on a couple of others I snagged during the landrush and havent gotten around to developing yet.

[paulgl]

Originally Posted by MarathonMan

.CO is no better or worse then any of the other hundreds of county domains, like .SG, .IT, etc etc.

Obviously, you know nothing about .co

.co was released to the world. It is not a normal country extension.

.co was going to be the next BIG thing. Lot's of speculators. I just
don't think it panned out. It did not replace anything.

And the extension does not really matter, except for other country
extensions.

My only problem with it was the potential of type-in traffic. I could
envision people add an m and making it a dot com.

If search traffic is your goal, extension does not matter.

.co is a viable alternative if others of your favorites are not there.
But I'd even go for .biz, .tv, .info, etc. instead of paying a premium
for a .co

Paul

[friendclk]

I want to say, never ever purchase a .Info domain. Although they rank just as well as any other domain, people who go to .Info domains -never- buy anything.

People just trust .Com

[chrisrwallace]

Thanks for your replies... I am thinking of doing something locally as far as web develpment for businesses and it came up when I was doing a bit of keyword research... The .com is taken, but the .net and .org is available and I just happened to remember the .co extension and wondered how others have faired with it for SEO purposes... It is a small town and only 3 other sites in the top 10, the others are YP and the like... Thanks for your insight and would love to still hear others experiences with the .co extension...

[paulgl]

Originally Posted by friendclk

I want to say, never ever purchase a .Info domain. Although they rank just as well as any other domain, people who go to .Info domains -never- buy anything.

People just trust .Com

That is one of the worst observations ever on the WF.
And I mean ever.

Where do you people come up with this stuff?

Paul

[friendclk]

Thanks for your kind remarks on this Easter Sunday, Paul

[garyseo786]

Originally Posted by friendclk

people who go to .Info domains -never- buy anything.

People just trust .Com

wow , folks, this is the breaking news of 2011 so far

[James Schramko]

Originally Posted by friendclk

I want to say, never ever purchase a .Info domain. Although they rank just as well as any other domain, people who go to .Info domains -never- buy anything.

People just trust .Com

they definitely click on adsense ads on .info names

[Tylos]

I don't think there are any strong issued about .co domains, I have 12 .co domains and still I have well ranked

Yes, .com .net preferred

[azmanar]

Originally Posted by paulgl

Obviously, you know nothing about .co

.co was released to the world. It is not a normal country extension.

.co was going to be the next BIG thing. Lot's of speculators. I just
don't think it panned out. It did not replace anything.

And the extension does not really matter, except for other country
extensions.

My only problem with it was the potential of type-in traffic. I could
envision people add an m and making it a dot com.

If search traffic is your goal, extension does not matter.

.co is a viable alternative if others of your favorites are not there.
But I'd even go for .biz, .tv, .info, etc. instead of paying a premium
for a .co

Paul

The best answer ... so far.

I have some dot co myself. Will be using them soon. Never expected to be answered professionally even before I ask. What a relief.

Thanks Paul.

[goldhome]

Try to exclude extensions that specify a particular country or geographical location. It will be given priority in the those countries where they are meant to be boosted.

[Shiva]

.com, .org and .net are preferred! .co also does fine but as per theory not as well as .com, .org and .net!

[Ayekami]

.com is the best but dont really know about .co but i can tell you that if people can rank on the 1st page of google with subdomains like .blogspot.com or .webs.com then i dont think that it will be a big problem as long as you follow the basic principles.

[Moneyerr]

I have to say that .co is use little bit only for seo methods .com is mainly use for all methods of seo.

[karismasand]

Hi !

I have a .co domain related to auto insurance and is on 4 page of Google.

The site is: AUTO INSURANCE QUOTES ONLINE - FREE Auto Insurance Quotes Online

i suggest you to take a .net domain ...

[Amitywill]

Originally Posted by Jimmy AL

The description of .co is "just like .com". I wouldn't buy one. Try and find a more relevant .com domain name. You don't have to give the exact keyword match, do you?

No it's not .co is the top level country code for the Republic of Colombia.

.co is great if you're trying to rank in Google Colombia but I'm afraid
it's not going to be as effective on Google.com as a .com/.net or .org
would be.

You can on the other hand add your .co domain to webmaster tools
and change the "Geographic target" of the domain to United States or
whatever Google you want it to rank on.

Although Google said "it will rank .co domains appropriately if the content is globally targeted"
I just don't see how a country code specific domain can outperform a general
global domain such as .com.

Will Cooper