Can a dotCom Beat a dotINFO or dotCO.UK in SEO?

[holdem8]

Hi all...

I am wondering if domain name extentions have any bearings on SE rankings? Assuming everything else are the same, will a .com trump .info or .co.uk in the search engines?

[Mark Brian]

I haven't seen .info ranking well yet at least on comptetive terms but .co.uk, yes.

[Diana Lane]

It's funny how often someone will post something on here moments after I've been thinking about the same thing. I was idly wondering whether most .infos do so badly because the majority are bought and sold with turnkey sites on them, to buyers who believe that owning a cheap and allegedly 'hands-free' site means limitless internet riches for the taking, and that no work is involved whatsoever.

I too have never seen a truly successful .info, but then again, I've never seen anyone truly work one either.

[Kevin Lam]

Sounds like a fun project to take on when I get some free time.

[Diana Lane]

Originally Posted by Kevin Lam

Sounds like a fun project to take on when I get some free time.

Was just thinking the same thing!

[Scripteen]

You can't beat a .com with your .info - .info domains are usually used by low quality content site or MFA sites like some will call them since they are cheap to register (down to 99 cents) and Google knows that fact.

If you are serious about your online business get a .com and if not available a .net or a .org would be the alternatives. It is not wise to lose hours/days of hard work and money spent just to save 10$ for a decent .com domain

[paulgl]

This is a novel topic!

I have always thought on the lines of dot coms.
I wonder about .net , .org, etc. as well.

For me, I have always tried settling on as close
to the name.com I want as possible. With all the places
online to give suggestions, it has been quite easy.
I got a fantastic one last year that had recently been
abandoned. I know the dot co.uk is pretty powerful as
it seems I have gotten those quite frequently when
searching on google.

Never even gave getting a dotINFO a second thought,
or even finding out any 'info.'

BUT....I cannot see how it would affect anything.
Aren't backlinks and content what matters?
Does this mean we can toss in extensions as well?
If true, at least I always made the right choices.
I do have a .us, however.

This thread just tosses more stuff in the mix for simple
people like myself to rummage through. Dang it!

Like I said, I have gone with dot coms just because I
have always thought they mean more and are cooler.

Paul

[Diana Lane]

Originally Posted by paulgl

BUT....I cannot see how it would affect anything.
Aren't backlinks and content what matters?

They do, very much so, but even if .com and .info is equal in the eyes of the search engines, a .com will always stand more chance of getting the eyeballs than the same .info because of type-in traffic. Taking this into consideration though is more like optimizing for the habits of searchers (some of them), rather than optimizing for search engines, and so not something I thought relevant to the original question.

Even so, the 'Oh great - a challenge!' part of my nature wants to tackle getting an .info to the top of the SERPS one day. It's probably the same part of my nature that had me (unsuccessfully) trying to persuade my husbands to change a nappy occasionally

[holdem8]

Generally, I don't see many other TLDs other than the dot com at the top 3 positions in Google. Maybe it is because the dotcom is king and it will not do justice to the extension to let go low. The owner will SEO the life out of the domain I guess

Generally the SEs will not punish the domain with a lesser TLD, IMHO.

In other words, say a country ccTLD such as dot com dot AU has slightly better SEO done and better content than the dot com, then it should logically rank higher.

I hope this is true... any SEO gurus here to verify?
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[anuj291]

Well as everyone says ... you might not see a .info but you will surely see .org / .net and other extensions...
So that theory should not work.. if u have a good information site it should be among the top ... the extension is more or less to tell the type of site

[kundrolpawo]

The only to know this is to do a test. Since everyone seems to advise against info domains, everyone who is following good advice is probably avoiding them. So the fact that they don't appear high in search engines is due to this.

.co.uk domains are good domains to use if you want to focus on the UK market but you should never use a country specific domain like this unless you are aiming at that country.

[dataprovier]

Not too much effect of .com but the fact is that many people knows much about .com ...i dont think there is other more benefit other than this

[paulgl]

I had an idea about this topic.
How does this sound:

People with a dot info are probably just happy to have a url
for their brick and mortar or hobby. Not really into SEO.
Plus, a dot info would be a secondary choice to a dot com.
A true SEO person would look for a comparable dot com.

Therefore, you probably would not see a dot info in the top
as the ones with the dot coms are doing all the SEO. In
other words, a serious SEO person would not even think about
a dot info. BUT...if they did, it seems that if one were serious,
they could take a dot info to the top.

Paul

[chaders]

as far as I understood .com .net .org are the same seo wise. unsure on .info and other TLDS

I am also under the impression thus far that a lot of lesser extensions are not as good as .com.net.org

[Smokey_Joe]

I have actually bumped in a similar discussion recently, but the focus was different, as stated in some of the posts above: some people claim that dot nets and dot orgs are "more valuable" in terms of seo. However, I have neither seen any indications of this sort nor heard of them. It just doesn't seem to make sense.

I believe the thing is that it's the purposes net/info/com/whatever serve that define their serp performance, not the other way round. On the other hand, regionally focused ones like .co.uk or .au can be of certain benefit when targeting the respective regional markets, though I'm not sure the impact is one hundred per cent provable and visible.

[selma]

I was really wondering about this and as this thread is a bit old, I just wanted to bump it to see if anyone has any more info to share.

[zcx]

I have three .info domains that all are showing up on the first page for several keywords. They haven't really performed any differently from my .coms or .nets. It seems the extension really doesn't make any difference when it comes to how sites do in the SERPs, but that's just based on my experience - I mean I have nothing to back that up except that's how it's worked for me.

[TimScott]

Domain extension does not matter. There is no proven fact that a .com will outrank a .info or vice verse. I've seen plety of .info's rank .com's for good keywords. All that matters is how relevant and SEO optimized your site is. But, the one downfall with choosing a .info, is that people are more likely to trust a .com site over a .info.

[KrazyG]

I believe it can. I haven't seen one yet maybe because .com is the most common and popular domain that people are working on and buy first before any other top level domains..