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How Does the New .co Domain Do for Ranking

by Lakezilla
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I am thinking about getting a new high ranking phrase using the .co suffix. I know that .com is the best followed by .net and .org. Obviously, those are already taken for my phrase. Is the .co worthwhile considering its high price tag?
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    I bought several .co domains and have gotten a couple of sites up so far, one of which after two days of launch and some minor backlinking is on page one of Google for my keywords. A little more work and it should take #1 spot without any problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author DogScout
    PS- .co stands for 'Columbia', NOT 'company'

    SU.PR (Puerto Rico) is #1 for tons of key words
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    • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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      Originally Posted by DogScout View Post

      PS- .co stands for 'Columbia', NOT 'company'

      SU.PR (Puerto Rico) is #1 for tons of key words
      That's true but Google has decided to treat it as an International domain rather than a Columbia domain.

      To solidify that ... list the .co in Google webmaster tools. Then click on Settings. Then choose unlisted so it shows everywhere or like I did in this case, I chose US because it is a US only business. So this domain shouldn't even show up in Columbia now.
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  • Profile picture of the author DSB
    I guess the big question is whether or not it will be adopted and recognised by the general public. Fair enough, it may do just as well in search engine rankings but would you really want to wrap your main brand around a .co? Don't think so.
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    • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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      Originally Posted by DSB View Post

      I guess the big question is whether or not it will be adopted and recognised by the general public. Fair enough, it may do just as well in search engine rankings but would you really want to wrap your main brand around a .co? Don't think so.
      Only time will tell how they are used and accepted by the public. They are brand new. If they are developed well and you see more and more of them, the general public is going to associate .co with company ... many of them will not even realize the .co extension stands for Columbia.

      For me, I've already made enough money from one of my .co domains to cover all my .co purchases plus make a profit and that's what I am using them for.
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      • Profile picture of the author eloshy
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        Have you been able to get the .co ranked high? I have a chance to get a few keyword rich domains that I would like to get some WP sites on and get some backlinking. Only this stopping me is the conflicting reports I read. Haven't seen many saying they have gotten on the first page with a .co yet.
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        • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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          Originally Posted by eloshy View Post

          @sbucciarel

          Have you been able to get the .co ranked high? I have a chance to get a few keyword rich domains that I would like to get some WP sites on and get some backlinking. Only this stopping me is the conflicting reports I read. Haven't seen many saying they have gotten on the first page with a .co yet.
          Yes. For my father's site for a non-competitive term. But I did it for a term that was outranking my father's site for his own name and company name that had pagerank 3. It was a site that was trying to capitalize off of his company name and since my campaign to get the new .co to the top, the other person gave up, deleted the content and parked the page.
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  • Profile picture of the author mnonline
    I think that you shouldn't use .co why? Because many people are not familiar with it since it is easier to type .com than .co I got used to type .com instead and always. I don't know about anyone else but it's just my opinion. It's a typing habit i guess? You will expect to receive less traffic than the .com. You should use something that popular unless you really want to reinvent the wheel. Try to come up with a creative .com domain and you should be ok.

    It's just my opinion so don't take it serious
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    • Profile picture of the author Vcize
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      My own perspective is that domain-name extensions don't "do" anything for ranking - their owners do. As discussed here so often, there are certainly plenty of ultra-low-cost .info domains ranking in position #1 on Google for highly competitive search-terms.
      I'm sorry to bump such an old thread but I came across this in a google search and it just bothers me to no end when people give out this kind of advice.

      Saying that domain extensions don't "do" anything is just flat-out wrong, and the fact that they "do" is common knowledge in the SEO world. Yes, there are plenty of .whatever's ranking 1st for their keywords. But, as we learned in the second grade, an anecdote and a proof are two completely different things. Just because a .info ranks 1st in many instances doesn't mean that it wouldn't have been 10x easier to rank the .com 1st in those same instances.

      I could rank heybigfranklookoverhere.tv first for the term "buy a toaster", but that doesn't mean that buyatoaster.com wouldn't have been 10x less work to achieve that same ranking.

      It's like telling someone that wants to be a college physics professor that it doesn't matter what major they pick because they know a guy with a sports management degree who teaches physics now. That may be true, but the road is going to be a lot easier for someone who has a graduate degree in physics.

      Originally Posted by mnonline View Post

      I think that you shouldn't use .co why? Because many people are not familiar with it since it is easier to type .com than .co I got used to type .com instead and always. I don't know about anyone else but it's just my opinion. It's a typing habit i guess? You will expect to receive less traffic than the .com. You should use something that popular unless you really want to reinvent the wheel. Try to come up with a creative .com domain and you should be ok.

      It's just my opinion so don't take it serious
      This thread was pretty clearly about how google handles .co with regards to ranking, not about branding.

      It looks like there is still almost no info out there on how .co's rank compared to the big 3, looks like it's time for a case study and I'll try to get around to posting my results when I'm done.
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    • Profile picture of the author damon79
      [QUOTE=mnonline;2509162]I think that you shouldn't use .co why? Because many people are not familiar with it since it is easier to type .com than .co I got used to type .com instead and always. I don't know about anyone else but it's just my opinion. It's a typing habit i guess?

      Best you keep your opinions to yourself. People like you restrict the growth of the Internet. Then again most do. It takes us very few to push it to the next level.

      My .CO's rank Google, Bing and Yahoo Page 1 Rank 1 with intermediate competition. Just after 3 months. .CO can compete with the big boys, and don't let fools like this mnonline say otherwise. Dozens of countries already use .co in the ccTLD. I presume mnonline is very inexperienced and sheltered. Probably American.
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