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.info domain name

by redi
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I'd like to know who had successes in earning income from .info domain names. How would readers perceive those sites?
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  • Profile picture of the author imfusa
    .info domains are the most cheapest ones, it is a bit hard to do seo on the. .INfo are usually for information and nothing more. You may have success with a dot info domain, but it takes a lot of time.
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    • Profile picture of the author Phil Ainsworth
      I'm not an expert in domain name strategy, but the only negative that I can think of in having a .info is that your site may have difficulty ranking organically in Google (I've heard that the big G considers .info as more likely to be spammy - although I've never tested this)

      However, even if it does, that in itself doesn't need to be a problem, if you were planning on getting traffic through other methods than organic SEO.

      My advice is to go for it and at least try... you'll do better if you take action than if you spend all your time wondering what is exactly the right thing to do.

      The beauty of this is it will only cost you a few dollars to buy and test out a few strategies with that domain name. If it doesn't work, you can always try something else.

      In other words "Don't sweat the small stuff" :-)

      Best of luck and let us know how it goes

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  • Profile picture of the author maxsm
    The only domain extensions that you should use for worldwide SEO are: .com, .net or .org, however if your going to target a specific country such as UK you should register a .co.uk, I would not bother with .info domains if I was you.

    Originally Posted by redi View Post

    I'd like to know who had successes in earning income from .info domain names. How would readers perceive those sites?
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    • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
      If you are not concerned with Google and SEO for promotion initially, then the .INFO extensions are just fine.

      As a side note, I have a blog with a .INFO extension which I've promoted without worrying about Big G (syndicating to my list). Perversely, because of the backlinks it's achieved by my articles being published on a number of very niche-relevant websites, it actually ranks number one for several keywords, above web sites with .COM extensions.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by redi View Post

    I'd like to know who had successes in earning income from .info domain names.
    I have, and I continue to. From choice, not because "the .coms have already gone".

    After all the market research I've done (by asking my own customers and subscribers how they feel about this question), I now choose to use .info domains for my primary money-sites whenever possible. I do also register the .com domain, in each case, to make sure that nobody else does, of course, but I build my business on the .info domain, and simply redirect the .com I'm not using to the .info I am using, in each case.

    Many customers feel that ".com" (and ".biz") sound like "someone trying to sell something", and they feel far more comfortable with a .info site, which they perhaps instinctively regard as a little more "informative".

    Originally Posted by redi View Post

    How would readers perceive those sites?
    Generally very well, in my experience across a wide range of niches.

    Marketers hate them, though, traditionally. So if you're in the "internet marketing niche" or "make money online niche", I wouldn't even think about it. :p

    Also, be aware that resale value will be poor (maybe even non-existent), that you'll encounter a lot of prejudice from people who haven't really tested/consulted and don't know very much about what they're talking about, and that there are even some particularly ill-informed people who still imagine (in spite of all Google's efforts in this direction!) that they'll be harder to rank. :rolleyes: :p

    Be aware that the voices of ignorance and prejudice are typically louder than those of reason and reality.

    Originally Posted by imfusa View Post

    it is a bit hard to do seo on them
    This is completely wrong.

    As discussed here in about 100 threads, all non-geotargeted TLD's are exactly the same, from Google's perspective, for all ranking purposes.

    Originally Posted by imfusa View Post

    .INfo are usually for information and nothing more.
    This is also completely wrong.

    There are hundreds of thousands of commercial sites on .info domains.

    Originally Posted by imfusa View Post

    You may have success with a dot info domain, but it takes a lot of time.
    This is also completely wrong. There's absolutely no reason why it should take any longer than it would take with any other TLD extension.

    Originally Posted by maxsm View Post

    The only domain extensions that you should use for worldwide SEO are: .com, .net or .org,
    This is nonsense, I'm afraid: it's pure fiction, with absolutely no basis at all in reality or logic.

    There's really a lot of ill-informed prejudice about this subject.

    What matters is what your customers think. And the way to discover that is to ask them. I did, and learned something.

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  • Profile picture of the author mrcarefull38
    Well I dont think they would as they know its an .info extension (Unless you have dynamite content) they would pass it by.
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  • Profile picture of the author randomsoftwaregroup
    Ditto everything Alex Smith said.

    One of my .info blogs in #1 for Evansville Internet Single (Population over 100,000)
    https://encrypted.google.com/#hl=en&...ternet+singles
    https://encrypted.google.com/#hl=en&...online+singles #3
    https://encrypted.google.com/#hl=en&...line+personals #2
    https://encrypted.google.com/#hl=en&...+online+dating #7
    https://encrypted.google.com/#hl=en&...nternet+dating #7

    I think we know that is a competitive niche, and these rankings are not for a site, but just a single blog post on a .info
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    • Profile picture of the author slayer0x59
      Theres a reason why .info sites are cheap. It's quite hard to optimize them while with only a little boost on .com .org and .net sites they can easily surpass a .info
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      • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
        Originally Posted by slayer0x59 View Post

        Theres a reason why .info sites are cheap. It's quite hard to optimize them ......
        Why would it be harder to "optimize" a .info domain? Seo and it's optimization has to do with content, internal linking, backlinking etc. As far as I'm aware it has nothing to do with the extension - unless, of course, your keyword just happens to include the term .com!

        For the record my two best earning sites are both .info domains. From the point of view of the reader, they do what it says on the tin, provide the reader with the information they are looking for.

        It's also a fallicy that .info domains are cheaper. They are for the first year, but their annual renewal fees are the same as .com domains.
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  • Profile picture of the author Raindance
    Google doesn't care if you're .com or .net. or .org or .info or even .tv for that matter. You'll rank high only when you have relevant backlinks pointing to your site. The TLDs have nothing to do with SEO. No search engine gives particular preference to particular TLD.

    Except for the geo-targeted extensions, all others are treated equal by Google. In other words, if you have a .co.uk or .com.au, you'll do better in UK and Australia search results respectively than google.com's.

    So apart from the geo-targeted ones, all extensions are fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author JC Alexandre
    .INFO is more about education and information on certain topics. Well yes correct if you're not worried about SEO and google go for it, ive seen many people start a blog using .INFO and post quality daily post.
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    • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
      Originally Posted by JC Alexandre View Post

      ..........Well yes correct if you're not worried about SEO and google go for it, .....
      Please explain why it's harder to seo a .info site. As I said above, I know of no seo strategy that makes use of the domain extension.
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  • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
    You can use the info. domain name to build your online business as well .com domain name. No problem!

    Thing only you need to pay attention to SEO in Google, you need extra effort to success with the info. domain name in Google.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by himanuzo View Post

      you need extra effort to success with the info. domain name in Google.
      Wrong.

      That is untrue.

      Google says so (repeatedly); Matt Cutts says so (repeatedly); SEO textbook writers say so; people who have tested say so.

      Your "information" is from the Urban Myth School of Internet Marketing: it was never true, and it still isn't.
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  • Profile picture of the author PAKOFFERS
    .info domains are very good. I have seen a lot of .info domains with a PR of 4+. There is no problem in getting ranked a .info domain. These domains are also cheap. I will recommend you to go for it.
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  • Profile picture of the author AlexGill
    They're cheap!
    However they are not as good for SEO purposes if that's what you wanna be using them for. Google just prefers dotcom domains followed by dotnets and dotorgs. I own a couple of .info domains and mainly using them as redirects.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Originally Posted by redi View Post

    I'd like to know who had successes in earning income from .info domain names. How would readers perceive those sites?
    I have NO difference in using an .info domain over any other domain, given the content of the site and the SEO done are equal. They rank the same as any other top level domain.
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    • Profile picture of the author sprucehill
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      I have NO difference in using an .info domain over any other domain, given the content of the site and the SEO done are equal. They rank the same as any other top level domain.
      Exactly. Of my 6 current money sites, 5 are .info domains. Up until the recent Penguin update, all 5 .info sites ranked on page 1 of Google for medium competition keywords, between #1 and #5 spot. After the recent Google update, they all dropped slightly (including the 1 .com), but with added content are moving up again.

      My .info sites have consistently outranked many .coms, .nets and .orgs. Of the other sites I am currently working to put online, most are .info domains. Your content value to your site visitors is much more crucial than your domain extension.

      As previously stated, Matt Cutts himself has said the domain extension makes no difference whatsoever in ranking a site.
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  • Profile picture of the author subbun
    The best suggestion is that DO NOT use these sites, if you are tragetting to make money from your website like adsense, cpa, affiliatemarketing

    Use only .com .net .org

    Regards,
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    Originally Posted by redi View Post

    I'd like to know who had successes in earning income from .info domain names. How would readers perceive those sites?
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  • Profile picture of the author seafrontsteve
    A few years ago I used to buy lots of .info domain names - and they did OK, about the same as .com .net and .org.
    Then I found renewing them from year 2, they actually cost more than .com
    So now I only bother buying .com or .co.uk whenever possible (or .net .org if .com taken) - because I'm sure, every thing else being equal, visitors regard these names more highly.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by seafrontsteve View Post

      I'm sure, every thing else being equal, visitors regard these names more highly.
      I used to think that, too, Steve.

      Until I actually asked them      . And then I found out that "customer perceptions" and "marketer perceptions" can be completely different, and sometimes even radically opposed.

      There are enormous numbers of people out there who think that ".com" looks like "somebody trying to sell them something", which they say instinctively puts them on their guard and makes them wary, whereas they think ".info" looks like an information site, which is very often what they were looking for, and they feel more comfortable with that, and they even say they're actually more likely eventually to buy from such a site, too.

      Live market research, with one's own subscribers/readers/visitors, can be a real eye-opener.
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  • Profile picture of the author seafrontsteve
    Thanks Alexa.
    I agree that nothing beats asking customers what they think or want.
    Not something I have done with domain names - so I stand corrected.

    Maybe I'll also think about testing results from using one or two new .info domains.
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  • Profile picture of the author System Wide Solutions
    The domain may not affect the traffic of ranking. Its just the quality of content and links.
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  • Profile picture of the author JimOrr
    I have always wondered this myself. I will say though I have seen very few .info sites at the top of Google under competitive keywords. Maybe this is just because more people use .com and .net.

    I have only used .info for short term needs that I would drive traffic to by other means then SEO. That is just me though.
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    • Profile picture of the author DeMango25
      Originally Posted by JimOrr View Post

      I have always wondered this myself. I will say though I have seen very few .info sites at the top of Google under competitive keywords. Maybe this is just because more people use .com and .net.
      Wouldn't be surprised if that was true , personally my first micro-niche site I ever made was actually a .info, experimented with different backlink strategies, some good, some bad... eventually ended up at #1 in google for my main kw, then the penguin hit and I'm now at #5, so definitely no problem to rank .info sites!
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  • Profile picture of the author Jrivera680
    I personally have had great success with my .info sites. My .info sites work well with SEO, and I rank well. I honestly believe it's a myth that .info sites don't work well with SEO.
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