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How hard to rank a .Net ??

by CircleofDocs
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How hard is it to rank a .net domain??
Is there a difference between .com and .net??
#hard #net #rank
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    TLD has nothing to do with ranking a page.
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  • Profile picture of the author mohsinmallik
    Originally Posted by CircleofDocs View Post

    How hard is it to rank a .net domain??
    Same as .com domain.

    It is just a misconception among people that it is easier to achieve ranking through .com domains. The reality is, ranking totally depends upon the quality of your contents and the quality of inbound backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author noobsaibot
    as well as .com or .org
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  • Profile picture of the author brainfreeze0
    The ranking ability has nothing to do with the extension. The reason people prefer a .com over .net, .biz, .co etc has to do with the amount of traffic the web owner stands to lose.

    Most people will automatically go to the .com version of a domain name due to the practice being ingrained in our brains after all the years of the .com era. So if you have a great domain that was only available in .net that is easy to remember, say iphonecentral.net, and get a nice page rank, you stand to lose a lot of traffic who just travel there through directly typing in the url when attempting to revisit as they will go to the .com version.
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    • Profile picture of the author UMS
      Originally Posted by brainfreeze0 View Post

      The ranking ability has nothing to do with the extension. The reason people prefer a .com over .net, .biz, .co etc has to do with the amount of traffic the web owner stands to lose.

      Most people will automatically go to the .com version of a domain name due to the practice being ingrained in our brains after all the years of the .com era. So if you have a great domain that was only available in .net that is easy to remember, say iphonecentral.net, and get a nice page rank, you stand to lose a lot of traffic who just travel there through directly typing in the url when attempting to revisit as they will go to the .com version.
      That might have been the case many years ago, but definitely isn't the case now.

      Most people will access a website via a search engine, even if they've been there before.

      Even if they do start typing in the URL into their browser, the browser will autocomplete to the correct URL.

      I wrote a blog post last year detailing some of the myths around this point of view.
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      • Profile picture of the author brainfreeze0
        Originally Posted by UMS View Post

        That might have been the case many years ago, but definitely isn't the case now.

        Most people will access a website via a search engine, even if they've been there before.

        Even if they do start typing in the URL into their browser, the browser will autocomplete to the correct URL.

        I wrote a blog post last year detailing some of the myths around this point of view.
        Yeah that's true. Autocomplete has changed the game quite a bit. I know I depend heavily on that and Google search history when I can't remember exactly how reached a particular domain on a prior occasion. however for the sake of anyone who happened to see or hear a URL offline while out and about this would definitely have a bearing on the issue.
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  • Profile picture of the author Becker13
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    Does anyone have any proof that .coms dont rank faster than .biz etc.

    Every .com exact match I have had has almost always ranked very fast
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  • Profile picture of the author brainfreeze0
    Search engines don't care about extensions. They care about keyword relevancy and focus, back links, and other factors on and off the page. A person can own a .com version of the same domain name as a .net domain, start off at the exact same time, and the SEO factors mentioned would be the only driving force I could see.

    Although it would be interesting to see a .com vs a .net on a low competition keyword use some black hat SEO with the same content on both and see who Google put first on the SERP's.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdesigndevelopment
    I personally think that .com domains are better to get ranking. Sometime ago when I was searching about which doman TLDs are better i found one article from seomoz. Here is the link Domains - SEO Best Practices | SEOmoz
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  • Profile picture of the author sham2
    i have never seen any .net or org domain on # 1 position. have you? Kindly share if you.
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  • Profile picture of the author safexsolutions
    .net and .com are same hard..but .info is little harder to get rank by Google after Penguin Killed all MNS..as MNS were based on mostly .info sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Carlin
      With .coms on low competition keywords you basically rank automatically within 2 days (so long as it's crawled).

      If you have an EMD with .org or .net you can still rank it just as well but I've set up 500+ websites and I've always found the .coms to rank quicker.


      @ Sham: "I've never seen a .org rank #1" ???????????????????????????????

      Never heard of WIKIPEDIA.ORG?

      Seems like everyone on the WF has an SEO company...but does everyone do SEO?
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  • Profile picture of the author ralchevd
    The only difference is that if you are trying to rank a .net domain, then .com it probably taken by your competitor.
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  • Profile picture of the author MaryPabelate
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    .com ranks higher than .net and the difference is really a lot..

    You need to do double effort to rank a .net domain compared to .com...
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I bet 99.999% of the people that think .com's are magical have never tested any other TLD with the exact same content/links/keywords on any other TLD besides .com's.

    Some of the comments above are borderline delusional.

    For you guys that think .com's are such a big deal, what's your reasoning why Wikipedia ranks so many pages so well? Must be Google love (lol), or is it some kind of mysterious magical .org domain?

    Surely Wikipedia isn't ranking because of links, no, couldn't possibly be the links. :rolleyes:
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  • Profile picture of the author MatthewWoodward
    Originally Posted by CircleofDocs View Post

    How hard is it to rank a .net domain??
    Is there a difference between .com and .net??
    Exactly the same as it is to rank a .biz, a .tv, a .co, a .gb.net, a .org.uk .....

    You get the idea ^^
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  • Profile picture of the author profilelinks
    depends on the type of niche you are in, but i dont think its very hard to rank...
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    • Profile picture of the author howinfo
      I have not been able to find the Google report on how they rank different top level domains and I can not think of any logical reason why they would want to rank some TLD better than others, however there are some people who seems to have that information as they always say that .com ranks the best and then .net ranks little bit less and then .org ranks bit less then .net and so on. Please could you kindly let me know where that information is coming from and what would be logical reasoning behind it.

      If I was to worry about how the domain name will rank I would be concerned about what goes to the left side of the dot and not on the right side of the dot. Unless someone wants to rank for the word 'net'.
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