.info success?

16 years ago

this site does well - ledburybedandbreakfast (dot) info - but it's a low competition niche. It's number one for the obvious search terms.

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JonRyker

16 years ago

I've got four dot info site,s ranking in the top of page 1 of yahoo and on the second and third page of google, still working on them.

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howinfo 16 years ago

Our Career Article Directory and Career Forum are built on info domain and it ranks really well with these terms and as we are expanding the site and we are targeting some more competitive keywords now and these terms also really well. Ranking is all about how you do your SEO and it has noting to do with your domain extension.
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- bgmacaw 16 years ago
  
  Ned?
  
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  sanctuary cities - Interesting battle for top spots for variations of this keyword between a liberal .org and the conservative .info, BTW
  
  Oh, and for the clueless/lazy, GOOGLE on those terms
  
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16 years ago

uber competitive

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thebitbotdotcom 16 years ago

Originally Posted by digitalproductreporter

uber competitive

black friday - Google Search

Wow! The proof is in the pudding on that one! 104,000,000 competing pages!
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- Dennis Gaskill 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by thebitbotdotcom
  
  Wow! The proof is in the pudding on that one! 104,000,000 competing pages!
  
  And I just clicked the link and it said 245,000,000 sites. You really can't trust that number at all. They can give you any number they like when they only show the first 1,000 sites in the results.
  
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DNChamp

16 years ago

.info domains can be built out with seo and ranked no problem.....If your looking for direct type in traffic...... .com is your buddy

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SledgeHammer 16 years ago

Originally Posted by DNChamp

.info domains can be built out with seo and ranked no problem.....If your looking for direct type in traffic...... .com is your buddy

That's the best answer. For affiliate marketing, .info is not that bad.
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seobro

16 years ago

At one time you could get super cheap .info domain names. In fact one registrar sold them for 99 cents each and as a result most were use for spam. This did tarnish the brand some. People now associate common words that end in .INFO as spam.

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theemperor

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Which people? I don't know anyone who does that.

Reading this, I was expecting you to link to: Weasel Words

Unfortunately we can't wiki-edit each others posts.

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Crew Chief

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Thomas Michal

Has anyone been able to rank a .info high doing seo?

When your On Page and Off Page SEO skills are up to par, you can rank:

.info
.co.cc
.biz
.net
.org
.us
blogspot
wordpress
Youtube videos
Etc., etc.

It's not about the type of TLD, suffix or platform; it's about your SEO skills.

Originally Posted by seobro

At one time you could get super cheap .info domain names. In fact one registrar sold them for 99 cents each and as a result most were use for spam. This did tarnish the brand some. People now associate common words that end in .INFO as spam.

First time I've heard of this...

Giles, the Crew Chief

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suffolkman

16 years ago

I have used .info sites in the past which have ranked OK. These were typically 1 page websites.

But now I am moving more to authority sites and feel that .COMs are the way to go. Also I may be wrong but they appear to sell better on Flippa.

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theteach

16 years ago

Okay,

So let's say I bought 50 .info domains and set up a 1 page site for each of them. I'm wondering how I could find the time to do seo for all 50 sites.

If I make the domain names VERY specific, would some of them naturally get high ranking? Is it a better idea to buy 100 (or even more) targeted domain names with long-tail keywords and let them do their own thing?

Does Google tend to 'penalize' this type of set up?

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suffolkman

16 years ago

I know that Brian Johnson typically uses 1 page websites with very specific domain names, ie they contain the keyword you are ranking for.

Also he makes sure that there are out bound links on his sites. This he says makes google look at the sites as authority sites, as they are linking to sites such as wikipedia. He does not worry about people selecting the links to leave the site, as he gets more anyway by using this technique.

Also of course you need to have a keyword that is low in competition,say less than 50k and has high searches, say 4k.

Peter

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suffolkman

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Here I disagree completely.

I don't care if there are 5,000 "competing sites" or 5,000,000, because I'm actually competing with only 10 of them, and those are the 10 on the first page of Google SERPs. I would need to know what those sites are (especially the top 3 or so) and form an assessment of whether I can outrank them.

Which would you rather compete for, a keyword which has 5,000,000 other sites but article directory articles listed on the front page (usually a very easy target), or a keyword with 5,000 sites listed, but the top 5 or 10 and nearly all age-old, high-PR, authority sites with millions of backlinks (usually quite impossible to dislodge/match/replace)? This is what actually matters. To me, anyway.

Hi Alexa,

Yes I can see your point of view,which I have seen else where. The statement I gave was from the method that Brian uses.

I would check out the authority of the sites using SEO Book FireFox plugin. Plus back this up with Traffic Travis, the free version.

Peter

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Quentin

16 years ago

I set up all my amazon sites on dot info sites and while not fantastic for seo they make money which in my opinion is far more important.

I don't really care if they rank I am more interested in the income.

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ChrisBa

16 years ago

SEO isn't a problem with .info
it's how the customer views it... (scammy, not trustworthy, etc)

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MarcusEJC 16 years ago

Originally Posted by ChrisBa

SEO isn't a problem with .info
it's how the customer views it... (scammy, not trustworthy, etc)

You have to remember, the vast majority of web surfers probably don't even think about it. All they care about it whether the website they end up on has the information they want.

I personally think that .info names are great. I use them for all my Amazon niche sites, and I'm starting to make sales now. Money is tight right now, trying to grow my internet business, so why waste money on .com domain names? For every .com domain name I can buy 10 .info domain names, so I can make a new site every day. If I tried to do that with .com then the cost would soon mount up!

I think .info names are great, personally. But in a way I'm happy that they are generally looked down upon by many webmasters and internet marketers, because maybe that's what keeps their price low?

So I'm not going to shout about it too loudly. Everyone else can go on wasting money on .coms, that suits me just fine...
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Dennis Gaskill

16 years ago

Google "craft ideas"

#1 site, a .info.

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Louise Green

16 years ago

The suffix only matters when you're aiming for ranking for a particular country.

It's not the domain name that decides if the content of a website is relevant/trustworthy..

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thebitbotdotcom

16 years ago

I have personally ranked above fortune 500 companies on the first page of Google for a niche keyword using a dot info domain. It wasn't even that hard. All SEO.