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How effective are .me domains?

by TheRiddl3r
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Lets say these are my choices:

buy-widgets-online . com

or

buywidgetsonline . me

Which one is better and easier to rank? It's also important for visitors to be able to remember the domain and maybe come back every once in a while since it will be content rich.

I'm going after a pretty competitive keyword so the ONLY available extensions are .me and .cm (which is hella expensive), unless I want to insert annoying dashes and go with a .com.

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author m100k
    When looking at it from a long term perspective you might be better off with another keyword with a .com extension. If you are planning on making your site big and popular for the next years to come, you need to put the customer in mind when choosing a name and extension.

    The last thing you need is having all your traffic go to another domain just because they had a .com extension.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    Personally, I'd take the .com whenever possible
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  • Profile picture of the author Damien Roche
    This is quite interesting because it poses the question - will these different flavors of domain names have different impacts in the future.

    Imagine google instantly started putting .me domains at the top when people searched for real names.

    "My Name Review"..

    turns up:

    myname.me
    mynamereview.me
    mynamehq.me

    etc etc

    ..and you happen to own the review site: mynamereview.me. It would be a FRENZY.

    Who knows what google or other search engines will do?

    You could be ahead of a trend.

    In your case, no I wouldn't register a .me just to get keyword rich domain. It is often better to add a 'stop word', or any prefix or suffix:

    hq
    hub
    the
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  • Profile picture of the author SonnyKing
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    I woulden't do get a .me because of a rich keyword.

    However, based on how your domain looks, you might be on to a new trend

    I think Mike Filsame has a .me. Idk why I said that just wanted to throw in there
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  • Profile picture of the author TheRiddl3r
    Thanks guys I appreciate the input.
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