TLD - does it make any difference which?

by RobertSeviour

Posted: 14 years ago 11 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I am looking for a domain where the .com and .co.uk versions are taken. Is there any downside to choosing one of the many other types? I am only considering in the SEO aspects of this, not whether indicating a national location has a bearing on traffic.

#difference #make #tld

sahi 14 years ago

I've used .net and .org with good results. Didn't have any luck with .info though.

Used .biz with my company sites, and results were same like if I was using .com because the sites are ranking well in the SERPs for their keywords.
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- RobertSeviour 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by sahi
  
  ... the sites are ranking well in the SERPs for their keywords.
  
  That what counts.
  
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Alexa Smith

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RobertSeviour

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Yes: the fact that the .com version is already owned by someone else. That's not exactly a "plus", you know?

Could you spell out what the disadvantage of the other TLDs is, please?

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Alexa Smith

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RobertSeviour

14 years ago

My purpose is to build a site which from the ground up has good SEO characteristics so that I get as much organic traffic as possible. That's I would like to use the principal keyword as part of the domain name, since that is contributes to good SEO. The .com and .co.uk are taken so I can't use them but there are other TLDs which are available. I am asking warriors about this in case anyone knows for sure that a 2nd tier TLD is disadvantageous for SEO. I bought a warrior special offer a while ago which mentions that there is no downside to the 2nd tire TLDs (for SEO) but I thought it would be good to see if others agree.

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Jill Carpenter

14 years ago

Originally Posted by RobertSeviour

For SEO purposes it's fine.

Here is the thought with a dot com. If someone wants "mustard" lets say, and instead of using the search area they type it into the address bar, they are most likely to just type in mustard.com because the dot com has been around the longest and many are just trained to do that.

If you are just looking to rank, and lets say the person who owns the dot com addy has it parked or something, you can go with the dot net and get plenty of SE love.

Now, there are some who will argue you should always get a dot com - but IMO it all depends on your long term goals with the site and what you are trying to achieve.

Ultimately, can you make money with something else and can it outrank a dot com? Absolutely. There are some circumstances where there may be an exception to the rule - but then again, sometimes the number 2 spot on the search actually does better than the number one. (shhh, you didn't get that from me

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RobertSeviour 14 years ago

Thanks for the input; as I mentioned earlier, a warrior special offer report I bought made the point that no TLD disdavantages you for SEO purposes. I was looking for confirmation of that before I pick a new domain.
Incidentally, I have found that subdomains which start with the keyword (featuredkeyword.oneofmyotherdomains.com) work fine, which makes me somewhat more confident that there is no problem with any TLD if you choose to disregard selling the domain in the future and the sort of searcher that you mention.
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broker12 14 years ago

I would say .com and .net are best for search engines. .com is best if you are thinking of a resale or doing offline marketing.
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- RobertSeviour 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by broker12
  
  I would say .com and .net are best for search engines. .com is best if you are thinking of a resale or doing offline marketing.
  
  Do you have any test evidence to support this?
  
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SageSound 14 years ago

The '.com' is mainly important if you expect people to type in a URL, b/c lots of people will automatically add '.com' to the end of whatever you tell them anyway. So 'mydomain.net' becomes 'mydomain.net.com'. <sigh>

For search engine purposes, where people are mainly clicking links but not typing anything in, then I'd say the TLD is irrelevant. There are several hundred TLDs, after all. The only possible preference I can imagine would be if specific country TLDs factor into geo-local targeting. That is, if people searching for 'stockbroker' who live in the US were to get hits on '.us' domains but not '.uk', '.cz', or '.pl' domains, for example. I can't really see that happening b/c these aren't very firm lines in many cases -- anybody can buy domains in any TLD regardless of where they live, except in countries that prohibit that.
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