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What domains are your Adsense sites?

by Oscar D
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I am doing a little survey here. What domains do you use for your Adsense sites?

Are your Adsense sites mainly .com, .net, .info or .co.uk etc?

I am thinking about starting a new site and I am unsure if a .com or a .co.uk domain will be better.

Will it be easier to rank with a .co.uk - but less traffic right? What are your thoughts - please share
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  • Profile picture of the author TristanPerry
    I'd go for .com

    I'd only use .co.uk if it was a site hosted in the UK and has content specifically for UK citizens.

    I usually say: .com > .net > .org
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    • Profile picture of the author Oscar D
      Originally Posted by TristanPerry View Post

      I'd go for .com

      I'd only use .co.uk if it was a site hosted in the UK and has content specifically for UK citizens.

      I usually say: .com > .net > .org
      Good advice, thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author Rob Anderson
    Hi.
    You pose a really interesting question here.
    i have continually read that .com is so powerful, and that Google punishes all those old .info guys that built up all those huge adsense sites awhile back.
    BUT.
    i think that Google doesn't care anymore. .com .info. org doesn't matter.
    however i do agree with Tristan in that .co.za or .uk. .au might get you more searches due to Google's trick of spitting out "local" sites first.
    but i have another question here - does it depend on where you hosting companies server is or not?
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by Rob Anderson View Post

      Hi.
      You pose a really interesting question here.
      i have continually read that .com is so powerful, and that Google punishes all those old .info guys that built up all those huge adsense sites awhile back.
      BUT.
      i think that Google doesn't care anymore. .com .info. org doesn't matter.
      however i do agree with Tristan in that .co.za or .uk. .au might get you more searches due to Google's trick of spitting out "local" sites first.
      but i have another question here - does it depend on where you hosting companies server is or not?
      rob
      I'm not sure how "powerful" .com extensions are, but Wired magazine had an article in the September 2006 issue that quoted many search company reps as saying that they started with the assumption that anything with a .info extension was a splog (spam blog). Keyword-loaded domain names, particularly hyphenated names, were another red flag.

      Wired 14.09: Spam + Blogs = Trouble. Splogs are the latest thing in online scams.

      I haven't seen anything that would make them change their minds...

      Seems the guys who once built all those huge Adsense sites are now putting their energy into mammoth networks of splogs for the same purpose.

      The article didn't mention whether server location was a factor.
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      • Profile picture of the author Microbusiness Media
        I would suggest always using a dot com because if you ever decided to sell the site later on, you will get more money out of a .com than any other extension.
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  • Profile picture of the author mrnightowl
    I agree... on the dot com. Its unbelievable how many good dot com names are still out there. short ones too. quick and catchy. I always check the lists of recently expired dot com names and try to find one that is close to what I plan on doing or if I see a good one that recently expired I'll make a site just for that name. I have a couple static myspace layout sites for adsense and those alone pay my $200+/month server bill.
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