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Domain Extension & SEO Impacts

by Venkatesh Krishna
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I'm planning to register a domain extension for educational start up. But our brand name is not available with popular extension such as (.com, .org).
And most of the startups are using .co & .io extension for their business.

As per my understanding .CO stands for Colombia & .IO stands for British Indian Ocean Territory. If i register my website with any one of this & targeting people who living in Australia, Can i rank the website for local keywords?

Please advice.
#domain #extension #impacts #seo
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    It might be possible to rank but it is not a very good idea. Generally speaking, the TLD has no influence on how well a site will rank UNLESS is is a ccTLD (country code) TLD.

    You'd be much better off picking a different domain name without a country-specific TLD (unless it is .AU), and using an add-on word at the beginning or end.

    Check this article out - https://searchengineland.com/google-...ns-tlds-225671
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    Why don't you register for an alternative domain keyword name? It doesn't have to be exact.
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  • Profile picture of the author romanepo
    You can choice .AU if your target business in Australia.or you can select any kind of TLD domain,Just remember that search engine give same priority all the TLD , just required proper SEO activity.
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