Is it harder to rank for Not .com Domains?

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Just wondering if its harder to rank for domains ending with like .me or .ws? Has anyone had any experienced with it? Thank you!
#search engine optimization #domains #harder #rank
  • I am not really sure but the best thing you can do to look more professional is to get a domain name with .com at the end because a lot of people recognize that more then the .me or .ws

    The most ranked sites on Google and Yahoo are the ones that end with .COM so this should give you an idea.

    Tal
  • Did you know this topic is discussed here over and over again, if not daily, at least on a weekly basis? http://www.warriorforum.com/search.php
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    • Extension has no bearing on potential for ranking.
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  • Personally for me (experience wise), .org rank really well for me similarly to .com

    I've don't buy any other extensions.

    Its just $5 or $6 a year extra investment worth making
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    • If you don't buy any other extensions, how can you back up your statement without proper testing?

      If you are just looking to rank a site - not looking for "type in" traffic, are you sure you are not wasting an extra 5-6 dollars per domain you buy and have to renew?
  • Not really...

    I'd say that .info's are a bit harder, but not massively.

    If you do your basic SEO, you can get pretty much any TLD to rank.
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    • Again, this is total miss-information.

      Ranking depends on content, relevance, backlinks, and a lot of other factors - but SE's don't care if it's a dot info or not.

      Domain name extension has no bearing on how a site will rank.

      The only point in purchase of a dot com is if you are looking for the added benefit of type in traffic, or if you are looking to brand yourself as this could give you a more serious/professional appearance.

      If you are getting a long tail keyword that no one is going to type in with a dot com or even remember, I wouldn't worry about extension.
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    • I was waiting for this bit of BS to show up in this thread.

      Google on the bold terms...

      This does beg the question, have you ever searched for info on Noam Chomsky? How about regular expressions, roman coins or craft ideas? Maybe you've never needed to do some research to find out if New York was a sanctuary city or to find out something about New York transit. Oh, and have you thought about moving your money to a local bank before you go shopping on Black Friday?
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  • I would take a look at the keywords you are trying to rank for and see what kind of sites are in the top 10-20 spots in google. That might give you a better idea of the answer to this question for your niche.
  • I have found that all my .info sites rank well on yahoo but not so well on google. So because of this I tend to go for .coms
  • From what i learned so far from website forums and niche builder to get good search engine position the com/net/org always ranks well
  • Ok i'm not gonna get into a pissing contest with you. I'm not "regurgitating nonsense that you've heard second or third hand from some SEO 'guru' who probably hasn't built a new site from scratch in 2+ years."

    Its strange how while knowing nothing about me, you could make such wild assumptions throughout your post.

    I'm speaking from personal experience, and the experience of friends. Baxter is hardly a 'guru'. He's a VERY smart affiliate, and he makes a lot of money doing it. Real affiliate marketing - not touting make money courses.

    I really can't see why you'd lash out in such a way. I was simply giving input to the OP about what myself and my associates have found. Not by reading about it, by actually doing this stuff.

    Just because you've seen different results doesn't mean your answer is the only answer.

    The fact that you would slam me and completely write off what I said for everyone because it's not the way you see things does however say a lot about your character though.

    I wish you the best of luck in your business.
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    I haven't found any difference in my rankings if the SEO is done. I just got a .co to rank on page one and many in the WF said they would never rank because .co is the extension for Colombia. Guess again. Google is indexing and ranking them the same as any extension based on content and SEO factors. I've had plenty of .info's ranking well also.
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    • Personally, I think .orgs, .coms, and .nets work better...and yes that is from experience. Everyone knows that..
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  • I have found that .org and .net do fine.
  • Everyone has an opinion on this question, but they are just opinions. I can't see how any of them are based on facts or testing. But everyone is going to come here and give you their opinion. And you know that opinions are like a$$holes. Everyone has one, and they all stink. Sorry if I offended anyone. But I believe it is the truth.

    I don't think that Google cares a damn about what your domain extension is. (yes, my opinion) Why would they care about that? What relevance has it got to anything? If you just use a little logic to answer the question, I don't see how it matters what the extension is.

    But that is just me.
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  • SEO-wise,

    .com > .org > .net

    Fact as of today.
  • .info's don't rank too well in Google.
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    • For what it's worth, I have a .info ranking just below Wikipedia and having very few links built to it. The term is a major term and Google has ranked it 2nd for years.

      The key is to earn the trust from Google (and not forgetting your visitors).
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    • Third time for non-thread readers and blind 'guru' followers...

      Google on the bold terms...

      This does beg the question, have you ever searched for info on Noam Chomsky? How about regular expressions, roman coins or craft ideas? Maybe you've never needed to do some research to find out if New York was a sanctuary city or to find out something about New York transit. Oh, and have you thought about moving your money to a local bank before you go shopping on Black Friday?
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    • Interesting? My info domains rank very well in Google. I wonder what Google has against your info domains then:confused:
  • Yes they do rank.

    BUT people are scared ****less by mystery extensions and possible viruses...

    I just surveyed a couple of my less tech saavy friends and they all said they have NEVER heard of .info.

    "WTF is .info?"

    And that they'd rather click the 2nd result if there is one (.com).

    My advice would be to buy a .info after it ranks and if your gut feeling tells you you'll make money from it, go ahead and buy the .com. You don't have ONLY one choice to go about this you know...

  • There you go again. Do you know how an experiment should be done?

    If you're testing the effect TLD's have on ranking, every other variables such as backlinks, on page SEO, should be kept the same (constants).

    Yahoo.com ranking for the term "yahoo" is not proof that .com ranks better than .info domain names just as much as romancoins.info ranking for "roman coins" is proof that .info is better.

    Unless you can fathom this, going back and forth with you is pointless.

    Here's how it should be done.

    - Buy both romancoins.com and romancoins.info at the same time.
    - Use the same content for both domains.
    - Build the same number of backlinks to both domains at the same time.
    - Monitor results and improvement in ranking.

    Now in this case the only variable is the TLD. This is a scientific experiment.

    Write your conclusion accordingly. Is it harder to rank for Not .com Domains?
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    • Unless you can understand that in real world SEO, not in some contrived meaningless so called 'scientific' test, that .info domains rank just fine all the time, going back and forth with you is pointless.
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  • I stopped reading the posts after a while and decided to add my opinion, those who are in favor of .info or who say .info can rank well are not wrong at all, i personally haven't used a .info domain but was planning to use that's why i landed up here, but i have used a .in domain which is for India and i ranked pretty well for many keywords, so if .in can get me traffic from all around the world and rank well then i am pretty sure even .info can. All depends on keyword,competetion,content,seo
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    • Try to beat prchecker.info.
      beat it for page rank checker, pr checker, google pagerank, whatever.

      When you can't, you'll come back and say,

      "Gee. I guess it's harder for a dot com to beat a dot info."

      Make sense? of course not.

      The sheer numbers of dot coms vs. dot infos is misleading into
      thinking it's harder. The vast amount of dot coms that have years
      of age and authority also add to the myth.

      Has nothing to do with domain extension. It has to do with the site
      you are trying to beat. Period.

      This voodoo SEO really has people twisting around.

      It also keeps domain resellers rich, newbies crying "What happened ?
      I followed the magical list....and I failed!" It was supposed to be easy!!!

      Paul
  • I totally agree, and moreover it also depends on what works or worked for someone. Having a keyword in the domain is good and it matters and apart from that the rest of the SEO techniques is what makes a difference, I am gonna go with a .info domain and try to make it rank well.
  • After reading this thread, I would have to say it must not make any difference at all. The most compelling argument I saw was about Google not wanting to hurt the relevancy of their results. Whatever you say about Google, they do care about search. Penalizing certain extensions would hurt their results since there is no reason a .biz or whatever cannot have the most relevant results for the search.

    Besides, as the internet keeps growing, we are going to see more and more new extensions. Does not make sense to penalize them all.
  • For I think you can be able to rank your site having that type of extension but better to use .com
  • I don't think so there is any direct connection between rankings and domains like .com, .net etc. However it is good if you get .com and .net first bu if not than taking other domain names will not harmful in terms of rankings.
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