Domain Extensions

by IMSue

Posted: 11 years ago 12 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Is anyone using .co successfully yet?

My options are a hyphenated domain, or a .co domain. Which is best??? I will be using both paid and organic traffic.

I am open to all opinions.

Thanks in advance!!!!

Suzy

#domain #extensions

DanielBlue 11 years ago

In the eyes of search engines it really doesn't matter. This was tested by quiet a lot of SEO professionals. Even if you take a .info, it will rank as well as a .com. On the other site, people have to most trust in .com's. I know some very successful marketer that are using .co's and it's ok. If you use hyphens, don't use more than one. They are difficult to type if you are on a mobile device. For SEO hyphens are ok.
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- CyberAlien 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by DanielBlue
  
  This was tested by quiet a lot of SEO professionals. Even if you take a .info, it will rank as well as a .com.
  
  I would love to see your links to that research. Where did you get this information from?
  
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  DanielBlue 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Chase Watts
  
  I would love to see your links to that research. Where did you get this information from?
  
  I was looking for this now 15 min. Can't find the website(s). I think Ed Dale has send me the mail about this a year ago or so. Sorry, to long ago...
  
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  BamIPD 11 years ago
  
  I will never understand why .co was ever created. It is way too close to .co and anyone with a .co has a high chance their visitors will go to .com instead.
  
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  DanielBlue 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by BamIPD
  
  I will never understand why .co was ever created. It is way too close to .co and anyone with a .co has a high chance their visitors will go to .com instead.
  
  Yes, that's true.
  
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  Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by BamIPD
  
  I will never understand why .co was ever created.
  
  It was created as the national domain-extension for Colombia.
  
  It was only in recognition of its growing use, commercially, internationally, as a ".com alternative" that Google announced that it would treat it for all SEO purposes exactly the same as any other international TLD (they're all the same, now, for all SEO/ranking purposes, and have been for a long time).
  
  Just as they did with the formerly geotargeted domain-extensions for Montenegro (".me") and Tuvalu (".tv").
  
  Originally Posted by BamIPD
  
  It is way too close to .co and anyone with a .co has a high chance their visitors will go to .com instead.
  
  I completely agree. That's probably the top of my own list of reasons for not using them.
  
  Originally Posted by IMSue
  
  My options are a hyphenated domain, or a .co domain. Which is best???
  
  No difference at all, for SEO. Personally, I'd take the hyphenated .com, every time, but for non-SEO reasons. You'll still possibly lose traffic to the owner of the unhyphenated .com, though, Suzy, so neither is ideal.
  
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sbucciarel Banned 11 years ago

I bought one that I use and it comes up #1 in Google for the keywords that I want it to. They are not particularly difficult keywords, as it is a very specialized niche. The only thing I don't like about .co is the natural tendency to type .com rather than .co, even if it's your own domain. I've done it myself to get to this site I built on a .co
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onegoodman 11 years ago

if you are not getting .com , doesn't really matter what the extension is.

.co doesn't seems to be that popular not yet at least
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CDarklock 11 years ago

Is anyone using wrenches successfully yet?! My options are a screwdriver and a wrench. Which is best? I will be doing both business and residential work.
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- Meharis 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by CDarklock
  
  Is anyone using wrenches successfully yet?! My options are a screwdriver and a wrench. Which is best? I will be doing both business and residential work.
  
  CDarklock,
  
  I've a screwdriver and a lineman's pliers. Will it work..?
  
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- IMSue 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by CDarklock
  
  Is anyone using wrenches successfully yet?! My options are a screwdriver and a wrench. Which is best? I will be doing both business and residential work.
  
  If you do not understand a question an ignorant comment is usless.
  
  Thanks for trying though.
  
  Everyone else thanks so much for your input!!!!
  
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  CDarklock 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by IMSue
  
  If you do not understand a question an ignorant comment is usless.
  
  "Domain extensions are tools."
  
  If you do not understand the comment, it is not the comment that is ignorant.
  
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