What is the Difference Between .com, .info, .net?

.com means that the domain is for business or commercial purposes.

.info means that the domain is for sharing information.

.net means that the domain is for a technology based company.

But I think, people prefer .com because it's more user friendly, popular and easier to remember than other extensions.

People are more accustomed to .com domains.

I'd suggest you get a .com over the others if possible, even if you have to add one small word on the end.

Google and the others give the most weight to .com in their ranking algorithm. Followed by .org and .net. The others will take the backseat to those all things being equal.

From the search engines' points of view, they're all equally SEO-friendly/unfriendly, John: it just depends on your own SEO, and doesn't intrinsically matter whether it's .com/.info/.net.

There are many people who believe otherwise, just as there are many who believe all kinds of urban myths of internet marketing. Ultimately, it's all opinion, though. Some people like to dress theirs up as "factual", but nobody can really prove what they're saying, because Google doesn't want anyone to know, for understandable reasons.

For example, there's loads of evidence (and it's discussed in 100 threads here, with supporting evidence) that it's no more difficult to rank a .info domain at the top of Google than a .com domain. But it's only "evidence". It's never going to be "proof". And you won't stop people disputing it, if it conflicts with something they hold as a deep-seated belief with the usual emotional investment in "not being wrong about it".

If people believe that Google gives more weight to .com domains, they'll say so and make it sound "just like fact". But however forcefully and insistently they say it, it isn't fact - it's their personal opinion only, and countless experts disagree with it.

Dot coms are good for "type in traffic" and branding purposes.

As far as SEO goes, all will rank depending on how keyword rich they are and how well you build the main site and supporting links. The extension itself does not determine where the site will show in the SERP's.

Thanks Alexa and Avenue girl. I thought as much, its only misconception afterall.

Whichever gets you the exact match keyword in the domain, take that.

Yes; this may be so, for some purposes.

For some of my purposes, I actually prefer .info sites, which seem more appropriate.

There's also the related issue that if you don't own the .com yourself, someone else can, and you can lose future traffic to them.

But these points are unrelated to the SEO issue, which - in my opinion - is clearly just an "urban myth".

No real difference other than price, but people naturally recognise a .com