Blogger vs. .info

13 years ago

Originally Posted by dlinden

Fellow Warriors, I wanted to get you guys opinion on which would be better if you have a small budget, a free blogger blog or a .info domain? This would be used for affiliate marketing of course. Organic traffic would be the traffic for it. Any advice or past experiences shared would be greatly appreciated.Thanks

I would go with the .info domain. Any blogger blog I have ever set up I did so with the assumption that it would eventually be deleted. Any serious income sites I've created have always had their own domain. I like being able to control my own destiny in the internet world (to some extent).

Why not just pop for the .com if your ready to begin? It's like $6 more dollars if you buy at namecheap and they'll throw in who-is protection for free. The cost of entry with a domain and hosting is less than $20 (even less if you get the .info) which is not a bad start up cost if you ask me.

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alcymart

13 years ago

I have a .info TLD and I use it for marketing purposes. I investigated before commiting to doing this and I saw nothing wrong using it for marketing purposes.

As for ranking, it is comparable to a .net or .org but for top 10, forget it unless your TLD has been around since it was available. Google and others are very picky on .info's as to ranking them as high up as a .com because of all the spamming sites that created a bad reputation using the .info TLD. That's my experience. Anybody else want to comment?

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bhuff85

13 years ago

Originally Posted by alcymart

I have a .info TLD and I use it for marketing purposes. I investigated before commiting to doing this and I saw nothing wrong using it for marketing purposes.

As for ranking, it is comparable to a .net or .org but for top 10, forget it unless your TLD has been around since it was available. Google and others are very picky on .info's as to ranking them as high up as a .com because of all the spamming sites that created a bad reputation using the .info TLD. That's my experience. Anybody else want to comment?

Take care,

Bernard St-Pierre

As far as ranking, it depends on what you're trying to rank for. I have two .info domains ranking on page one for their keyword (one keyword with 3600 exact searches per month, and another with 4400), both bringing in SE traffic from those keyphases as well. Both keywords are long tail, 4 words each.

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AustinDigital 13 years ago

I would go with a .com if possible, but definitely go with a selfhosted site rather than blogger.
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- bgmacaw 13 years ago
  
  First of all, the topic of .info domains has been discussed many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many times here before. Use the search function.
  
  As for the other question, should you use a self-hosted domain or a Blogger blog, the answer is that you should always use self-hosted for any domain you care about at all. Blogger blogs are often disabled and deleted, often due to various hamhanded anti-spam attempts.
  
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kaybanks 13 years ago

I would also go with the .info domain. (Although, I've always had bad luck getting .info domains to rank).
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shuvo

13 years ago

I also would prefer a dot info domain.It looks more professional than a blogspot domain.is n't it?

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by warteg

I must say blogger. google indexes .info , the least.

This is utter nonsense.

Domain extensions don't affect SEO in any way.

It may help you to read this thread, this thread, and this thread, and those are just a small handful of the recent ones in which your assertion is shown to be entirely incorrect.

It's clearly incomparably preferable to use a .info domain rather than a Blogspot site, so that you own and control your own website and won't have it suddenly disappearing in the night for no reason that you can ever understand, as has happened recently to so many other Warriors.
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- sappacis13 13 years ago
  
  I guess if you paid for a hosting services even thou you are using .info,
  still your site get high ranking enough compared to free services.
  
  But I guess it depends about how you spend time working on it to get a lot of traffic to your site.
  
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Syamsul Alam

13 years ago

why choose .info? for marketing purpose (affiliate marketing) i don't see any .info domain can achieve high ranking in Google. And in my opinion, .info domain do not represent as a quality site (it looks more like spammy or personal site).

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myonlyproxy 13 years ago

I would choose .info but if I have the chance I would go for .com
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bgmacaw 13 years ago

Originally Posted by alampintar

i don't see any .info domain can achieve high ranking in Google.

Originally Posted by Headfirst

Nothing says spammy scam like either a commercial blogger blog or a .info domain name.

<sigh> This silly nonsense again.

Google on 'roman coins', 'Noam Chomsky', 'New York transit', 'regular expressions' or 'beg the question'.
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imediazone

Banned 13 years ago

You can go for both, create a blogger blog, and after that, if you don't want it to look like a blogger blog, you can register for a paid .info domain, and assign it to you blogspot blog. And there fore you will have free hosting, with a paid domain.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by imediazone

if you don't want it to look like a blogger blog, you can register for a paid .info domain, and assign it to you blogspot blog. And there fore you will have free hosting, with a paid domain.

You can, but doing that does not exempt you in any way from Blogger's terms of service, and their inconsistent and idiosyncratic interpretations of them. Countless Warriors have had their sites disappearing for exactly that reason. There've been at least 10 threads warning people about this very issue in the last month alone. :rolleyes:

It makes far more sense to own and control your own website.

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Headfirst

13 years ago

Originally Posted by dlinden

Fellow Warriors, I wanted to get you guys opinion on which would be better if you have a small budget, a free blogger blog or a .info domain? This would be used for affiliate marketing of course. Organic traffic would be the traffic for it. Any advice or past experiences shared would be greatly appreciated.Thanks

Dave

Skip a fast food lunch or a pack of smokes and get a real domain name. Nothing says spammy scam like either a commercial blogger blog or a .info domain name.

A real domain name will only run you $10. If you cannot afford $10 you should seriously question your decision to take on this career.

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alextuder

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Headfirst

Skip a fast food lunch or a pack of smokes and get a real domain name.

A real domain name will only run you $10. If you cannot afford $10 you should seriously question your decision to take on this career.

That says a lot. And a very interesting debate goin on here.

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cpadualcore

13 years ago

For simplicity, its blogger for me..When considering SEO factor, its still a myth for me whether to choose a .info domain in comparison with high valued tld's.. So if we are creating a website for monetization purpose(thats what we all are doing) , the extra $$ spend for a .com domain is worth every penny..Best example for a .info domain is that we can use it for putting in on flyers or watermarking youtube videos , where only type-in traffic is necessary..

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JazzyB

13 years ago

Well as far as I know your blogger blogs won't be deleted unless you are havily email spamming your blog link or hosting content that is against their terms of service.
Plus blogger is google's own baby so they will definitely rank it better in serps than any other tld.
Plus you don't never have to pay for hosting and stuff and don't ever forget the renewal of .info is a cute 8.50$ so you will have to pay that every year so I will go with blogger any time.

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bgmacaw

13 years ago

Originally Posted by webmaster-

Well as far as I know your blogger blogs won't be deleted unless you are havily email spamming your blog link or hosting content that is against their terms of service.

It used to be this way but, unfortunately, now they've become much more aggressively clumsy at disabling blogs their 'bot considers spammy. Even innocent personal blogs with no monetization or SEO intent are getting disabled now.

Originally Posted by webmaster-

Plus blogger is google's own baby so they will definitely rank it better in serps than any other tld.

Not true. There's no advantage or disadvantage.

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Devid Farah

13 years ago

Hi Dlinden,

First of all there are a couple things you need to know.

Just because it is a free blogger website does not mean that it will make any less money.

I know an Internet Marketer who tested to see if he can get a free blogger blog to the top of one of Google’s most competitive keywords for internet marketers: how to make money online.

And with a plain, simple, and quite frankly ugly blog he beat out thousands of websites for several of the highly competitive “make money online” keywords.

His point: it doesn’t matter where you put your site, if you buy your domain name, or how pretty your site is.

As long as you have good content, which is king and a good SEO strategy, which is queen, then theoretically you can make it to the top for any keyword.

That being said, there are a couple of things you need to consider.

If you want to sell the website later, then that will only be possible if you own the domain name.

You also face the small risk that Google may delete your blog, so you won’t have the same amount of freedom that you would have if you brought a domain name.

But since you are working on a small budget I’d advise you to go the blogger route.

Make a few high quality blogs, and when they turning profitable use that money to buy a domain name and create your own website.

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bgmacaw

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Devid Farah

I know an Internet Marketer who tested to see if he can get a free blogger blog to the top of one of Google's most competitive keywords for internet marketers: how to make money online.

And with a plain, simple, and quite frankly ugly blog he beat out thousands of websites for several of the highly competitive "make money online" keywords.

Which worked for a while until Google started dealing out STFU penalties to these sites. Now one is gone from Blogger and the other is no longer anywhere to be found for the keywords.

Originally Posted by Devid Farah

You also face the small risk that Google may delete your blog,

Sadly, this small risk is now a considerable risk.

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Devid Farah

13 years ago

Originally Posted by bgmacaw

Which worked for a while until Google started dealing out STFU penalties to these sites. Now one is gone from Blogger and the other is no longer anywhere to be found for the keywords.

Sadly, this small risk is now a considerable risk.

Yes it is risky to put your faith in Blogger, but the principals still remain.

There are other places that offer free blogs and hosting but are a lot less strict than Google.

One that I've had success with is Yola.com.

The point I was trying to get across is that you don't have to buy a domain name to be competitive.

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bgmacaw 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Devid Farah

There are other places that offer free blogs and hosting but are a lot less strict than Google.

One that I've had success with is Yola.com.

Yola's not bad. I have a few sites there. I have some sites on other free subdomains.

However, these free sites have an alarming history of disappearing when the owner fails to make money on revenue shares or gets a big offer for their domain name. For example, today.com was a nice shared blogging site until NBC decided to fork over big bucks for the domain name.
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jonibravo

13 years ago

.info is better than blogger. It is my opinion because people will see your owned website instead of free blogger. So go for .info and make a wonderful site that will attract people. Bloggers are also good but not better than .info. Cheers!!!

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Steve Sieverding

13 years ago

I would personally spring for a .com or .net. How many .info's have you seen ranked in the top ten? I've personally only seen one. That was years ago when the Nintendo Revolution changed to the Nintendo Wii and that guy seo'd like mad to get up there. Now I don't even see it.

.com>.net>.org>.info

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bgmacaw 13 years ago

Originally Posted by ToxicSteve

How many .info's have you seen ranked in the top ten?

Thousands upon thousands, including some of my own. I included some examples above but you didn't bother the read the thread. :rolleyes:
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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by ToxicSteve

How many .info's have you seen ranked in the top ten? I've personally only seen one.

Personally, I've seen hundreds. And indeed seen huge numbers of them posted here as examples, in other threads about this subject.

With apologies, you're missing the point, here, Steve.

Some people see (for example) that not as many .info domain-names rank at the top of Google's SERP's as .com's (which is true), and they mistakenly imagine that that's evidence that .info domain-names intrinsically don't rank as easily. What it's really evidence of is that people believe that .info domain-names intrinsically don't rank as easily, and for that reason they don't use .info domain-names when they want to rank highly, which of course readily explains why there are fewer of them ranking highly.

It's not evidence of the fact for which you impliedly claim it as evidence: it's only evidence of people's BELIEF that it's a fact. In other words, it's self-fulfilling and it proves nothing.

As stated, proven and explained in 500 threads here, domain extensions don't affect SEO at all.

Don't take my word for it. Take Google's Matt Cutts' word for it. He says it whenever he can, openly and without subterfuge. He says it on video and in writing. He says it on his blog and on Google's blog. He says it in the mountains and in the fields and on the beaches and on the seas and in the skies. And he invites people to quote him on it. And I do.
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microunique

Banned 13 years ago

Always keep in mind that any top level domain .com,.org even .info is better than any other subdomain

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subashchandrapoudel

13 years ago

.info domain is a lot better than a blogger site.
with .info and own host we have our choice to customize our site , the way we want.

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whiteshadow1890

Banned 13 years ago

I would go for the .info domain, but in these case you will need also to pay for the hosting

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gvannorman

13 years ago

Wow, everyone is saying that you should go with .info. I do agree with this because its yours and no one can take it from you. What I do not agree with is that it can not rank. I have always been told that SEO and ranking depends on you. Here is what I have come to believe what it takes to rank in the Search Engines

1. Good keyword optimized domain name.
2. Good keyword optimized content original and quality
3. Correctly optimized site or blog. Wordpress plugins can do this with ease
4. New content. Google loves new stuff. So, updating about twice a week is good
5. Pinging. Once again Wordpress can automate this for you.

You guys can add anything you want. I just wanted to get the basics out there. Also, this should work for any domain extension.

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FredJones 13 years ago

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Inference: I meant, go for the .info domain. They rank in SEO, don't worry !!
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Dustin_M

13 years ago

I have a .info domain that ranks well. Given the choice, why would you ever build up something you do own?

With enough content, links, and time you can get anything to rank!

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dlinden 13 years ago

Thanks guys, this is great stuff. I have had this conversation with several people that are looking to get into internet marketing but don't have a big budget. What I was looking for was you guys that have experienced both and could give an educated opinion.

I know google has changed so much since 2009 I wasn't sure how this affected the outcome of both blogger and .info. Of course .com, .net would be better but for someone on a tiny budget i feel if they could 10-20 blogs/ .info sites up without having to spend a lot of money they could use the profits to then buy .com. Again, I just wanted to get different opinions on which would be better in 2011. Thanks
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- mekap04 13 years ago
  
  I would choose the .info over blogger any day. I've already learned my lesson the hard way about having blogs hosted by blogger. They can disable your blog and there goes all your hard work.
  
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bcturner

13 years ago

Toughy. Both are good - and although The Goog own blogger they still seem to give the link juice. Here's an answer - have both. Blogger is free after all.

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tamalanwar

13 years ago

I disagree with anyone saying TLD getting ranked individually. As far as the SEO perspective, every domain ranks equally (except country specific domains) but anything can be over ranked with great link building.

If you want to start a site, then go for a .COM if it's available. The domain is cheap and will take less than $10. This is one invest that costs less but we overlook it the most.

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Ryu

13 years ago

Originally Posted by dlinden

Fellow Warriors, I wanted to get you guys opinion on which would be better if you have a small budget, a free blogger blog or a .info domain? This would be used for affiliate marketing of course. Organic traffic would be the traffic for it. Any advice or past experiences shared would be greatly appreciated.Thanks

Dave

Neither, your blogger could eventually get deleted and I've been told that .info don't rank well, idk. But if on a small budget then use Weebly. its 10000x better than blogger and it looks more professional.

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fromtheashesofthephoenix

13 years ago

You have more control over the site if its your own. Otherwise the site you get for "Free" puts their own adsense on your website and makes money off of YOUR hard work.

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