Which TLD is best for Google out of .info .ws .mobi .biz .me .co .us

Google will say there is no difference, but I would prefer .com/net/org and none of the others.

Yes, you're absolutely right alex. That's what I believe and has experienced. However, for the keywords I've registered the domains for, as I see Google SERPS, there are .biz .me and other ranking on first page too.

Since this is going to be very specific niche site, I think these TLD will make to the top. What do you think? I am planning to provide quality content, maybe not regular content however, quality content.

Butter, YouTube is blocked here, I'll watch that in a while. Thank you. You're right Alex, but the question was indeed about out of the available options. Because when you're talking about niche keywords, .com/.net/.org are mostly already registered. Now there are big fishes everywhere and to get your chunk, you need to do something

This gives birth to a very interesting SEO discussion. How do you think I should link together 7 different TLD's? For example, I can make .biz my main site and let rest of these a 301 permanent redirect. On the other hand, I can make sites for each of the domain and make them link with each other. Is that going to benefit in anyway? Let's say we have unique and quality content on all of these 7 sites. Yes, there won't be regular content but good quality content. Will that make a difference? Which approach is better in your opinion according to SEO too? If we have 7 sites hosted on same C-class IP, will the link exchange help?

A lot of creative and very useful questions/answers here I believe. Ideas?

Butter, perfect. I've seen the video and that's what I really do. However, I think with niche sites, its at times best to leave geo targeting as it is. Specially after the panda/penguin update, I do not see much use of targeting specific country if you're trying to run a general blog type content.

With EMD's being smacked around by Google, I don't think you need those anymore. If the top 3 are not available, I just go to godaddy auctions and buy a 14 year old relevant domain for $20 and used them instead.

I think Matt Cutts tweeted something last month about EMD's being slapped even more.

I agree, but that's right when you're trying to sell products. I am just trying to earn a few dollars via adsense here and try things out to see how it reflects. I am going to practically do it and see the effects of the overall work. I'll update you guys with how it goes

Alex, I did try that auctions thing. In fact I purchased around 30 domains overall from different niches which are going to expire soon..... so what was the problem? glad, you asked. Rankings... I noticed, those domains suffer initially to achieve any kind of good rankings. The effort/amount/time you have to spend on getting an old relevant auction domain to achieve rankings is more than a new ones. Just my two cents for what I've tried.... maybe I didn't do something smartly.

I totally believe in making long term, high quality sites. To do that, I need funds. To reach up to that level, specially after my recent loss in stocks, forex... i really need to do my best and come up with a good chunk of money again.

So this seems to be a good start. I would be very much interested in talking about how to plan these sites for launch? from SEO perspective. As I said, we could be doing 301 redirection for all domains to one domain. Or build all of these? Will the same c-class ip link exchange benefit the site to rank for the same keyword? Since the domains are same keyword domains too, giving same anchor text links.... you know what i mean?

What do you think about the link wheel direction? from site1 to 2,3,4,5,6,7 or site2-7 linking to site1 (whichever we focus most on).

Interesting!

I always stare people who talk about branding. Why? because I love branding and the value that branding can create is mellifluous and surprising. So Ben Gordon .co mmmhmm

I'd love to discuss more about the SEO side of things, specially because these are niche sites and best to plan them ahead before getting everything done.