Info domains

I have not seen any indication that .infos have started ranking better than over the past few years. They do have their uses because of how cheap they are, but I would stay away from them on any site that could ever benefit from good old fashioned SEO because they have too much to overcome.

Just to put my 2 cents worth in, for what it's worth. The common person searching the net will almost always type the .com first. It is just the way we were trained. If your only trying to save the extra $6 to $8 dollars a year, it may not be worth the missed traffic.

This is merely my opinion but if the .com is available go for it. Never pick a .info and leave the .com available. Either take both or go with the .com. Its a better long term investment to simply get a .com, .net or .org.

I would choose only between a .info and .org, .info are not so great. I have a .org blog on no 6 first page, but for a keyword with only 96,000 searches/month, so not so much competition. For something bigger I still think .com rules...

I ran a quick test not so long ago

Created a .COM domain with a forum and populated it with threads.

Created 5 .info domains and put the thread titles as the domain names.

Google still ranked the threads in a forum higher than the .info

Of course it's not a scientific breakthrough discovery, but it gives you an idea... I only tested it with 5 domains

I had the same done with .com domains and sites are ranking on the 1st page of Google. I'm sure .info domains can be ranked, but they may require slightly more work.

I thought it was pretty much common knowledge not to buy .infos.... I mean, unless you're using them with Craigslist.

I used to stay far away from info domains thinking they were worthless because I could never see any of them dominating Google for any keywords. Today I am involved in product lauches and I have changed my mind as there are a few info domains in this niche that are really outranking the best .com domains very regularly.

That said, as long as I have the choice I will still go for .com and .net domains before anything else. Although more expensive, they're still a very low investment when you have an established business running well.

I had heard this too and then when I wanted to test some stuff, I bought a cheap dot info domain.

It was indexed within 24-48 hours, started getting plenty of search traffic.

I buy dot info domains all the time now and a couple of dot coms thrown in.

Don't discount them

Might I add, I have a certain number of .info domains that I recently added to my network.

Before I could even get any content on them they were indexed, and received 800-1000 unique visits per day within 48 hours. Its not a large amount of domains either. So this is all a bunch of malarkey as far as i am concerned.

search engines value .com and .info as same. but if you want type in traffic then go with .com version

I have bought about 10 .info names, a few .us, a few .org and a few .com as a test to see how they work out after the sites are finished. I will then track how many backlinks I have on each and how many pages indexed to see if .info is just as good so we will see what happens. I have seen some .info ranking 1st on google so it is possible, just not sure how much more work is need or not needed. We shall see, I will let people know how it turns out.

My own experience is that I've registered .info's and used them for non-exact-keyword domains, and they did fine. In fact, they performed just as I would have expected a .com to perform, meaning with content and backlinks, I was able to achieve good SERPs listings in about the same amount of time.

I've also bought .info's in order to get a closer keyword match than was available with .com, .org, or .net that didn't fair as well, but this was likely due simply to stronger, more entrenched competition from the .com, etc.

As far as statements like "I have a .info blog and it's on Page 6", well that's pretty meaningless.

That said, as someone who spends a lot of time reading respected experts and the 'serious' webmaster forums, etc., I did hear that .info's were slightly negatively weighted. Is that so? I don't know, however I have heard it from people who don't generally speak about things unless they have valid reason.

However my own experience again is that I haven't been able to discern any difference. I still register a .com, etc., given the choice, but that's mostly on the chance that I may look to flip the site down the road.

bfas

Just a note.. I've had .info sites that rank mid-range on Google, pulled traffic, sold items.

The idea that people "don't search for .info's" is crap. They don't search for .com's either!

When people search Google, they GENERALLY search for: Internet Marketing, Make Money Online, etc. They don't put a TLD behind it.