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.info domain names

by derekchambers
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Hi

I have quite a few .info domains and thinking of gettign some more as godaddy are doing them for a dollar

Has anyone found that they get ranked less than .com or .co.ukm or does it not make any difference if the SEO is good

I am looking at using them for IPK

Many thanks

derek
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  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    Google employees have stated that .info's are viewed with more suspicion than other domains because they're offered at such low prices. This makes them ideal for short term spammers. Thus .info's are more likely to be sandboxed for longer periods of time and require stronger link building efforts to rank well in search as compared to other top-level domain types.

    I've got a few .info's and I do have one that makes, on average, about $5 a day on Adsense. However, it's been around about two years and has good backlinks. I wouldn't buy a .info today though. I would go for a .com even if I had to add additional words to the name to get the keyword combo I wanted.
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    • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
      Do you have a link to any Google employee saying this? Like Matt Cutts or someone who really knows?

      Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

      Google employees have stated that .info's are viewed with more suspicion than other domains because they're offered at such low prices. This makes them ideal for short term spammers. Thus .info's are more likely to be sandboxed for longer periods of time and require stronger link building efforts to rank well in search as compared to other top-level domain types.

      I've got a few .info's and I do have one that makes, on average, about $5 a day on Adsense. However, it's been around about two years and has good backlinks. I wouldn't buy a .info today though. I would go for a .com even if I had to add additional words to the name to get the keyword combo I wanted.
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      • Profile picture of the author Richard Tunnah
        Originally Posted by TimPhelan View Post

        Do you have a link to any Google employee saying this? Like Matt Cutts or someone who really knows?
        I'd love to know that answer as well Tim. Because you see statements about search engines favouring .com's etc but I've never actually seen anything official from google or any other search engine to be honest

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        • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
          Yeh, I think it's just hearsay. It doesn't make sense to treat them differently. There's a bunch of crappy dot coms also. Of course it's always preferable to get dot coms for various reasons if the domain is available and you can afford it.

          Originally Posted by richt1971 View Post

          I'd love to know that answer as well Tim. Because you see statements about search engines favouring .com's etc but I've never actually seen anything official from google or any other search engine to be honest

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          • Profile picture of the author Barbara Eyre
            I have a .info website because it is an informational website, even though there are affiliate links, it's still informational. I never had any sandbox concerns or anything else that would make you think the .info has been treated differently than a .com

            If your website is informational, get a .info. If your site is a store, get a .com or a .biz

            As long as you do good whitehat SEO, natural backlinks, fresh frequent content, etc ... then your .info will be treated just fine by the search engines.
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      • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
        Originally Posted by TimPhelan View Post

        Do you have a link to any Google employee saying this? Like Matt Cutts or someone who really knows?
        My 2008 predictions

        A top-level domain (TLD registry) will offer domains for under $4. The result will be another TLD blighted by spammy domain registrations.
        and see this: Google Temporarily Purges .info Domain Names : SEO Book.com
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        • Profile picture of the author Corwinnx
          Like everything else in life, .info's can serve a purpose.

          My mentor is an affiliate marketer. She has a couple of her own products, but she makes damn good money from affiliate marketing.

          Because I prefer to incoroporate complimentary affiliate products into my own line of products, she advises that I use the .info's for the affiliate links within my products so that in the event that I want to change to a different affiliate product, all I have to do is change the url redirect in my own cpanel to my new affiliate link with the new vendor.

          Once my products are circulated in the market there is no way for me to go back to each person who's ever recieved a copy of my book and change the links in the book, so using a .info of my own as a link in the book allows me to always own the link and always be able to just change the redirect.

          Based on what I read from the links in this post, a .info is perfectly fine and if you're going to be doing affiliate marketing for a variety of products using Bum Marketing methods it's the cheapest and best way to maintain control of your affiliate marketing effots and there seems to be no SEO penalty for doing so.

          As far as a .info for a site selling your own products from your own site, trying to get affiliates for your products, etc... I would only use .com or .net's.

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  • Profile picture of the author derekchambers
    Thanks would be interesting to see the official line as I have just put up a .info site as a xmas site and am hoping it gets indexed

    Its not so much the domain name in terms of words but my limited budget

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  • Profile picture of the author cclou
    I bought some .info to use for IPK as well. The one that I started on November 1st is ranking 2 of 58,300. It's a three word phrase, not in quotes. I had 86 visitors yesterday.

    One that I started later (another three word phase) is number 9 of 804,000. I'm hoping to move above the fold on that soon.

    So I say, use .info if you want. Yes, they appear and then disappear for awhile from the search engines, but it doesn't seem to be for any longer than my .org or .com ones do.
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    • Profile picture of the author derekchambers
      Originally Posted by cclou View Post

      I bought some .info to use for IPK as well. The one that I started on November 1st is ranking 2 of 58,300. It's a three word phrase, not in quotes. I had 86 visitors yesterday.

      One that I started later (another three word phase) is number 9 of 804,000. I'm hoping to move above the fold on that soon.

      So I say, use .info if you want. Yes, they appear and then disappear for awhile from the search engines, but it doesn't seem to be for any longer than my .org or .com ones do.
      ok thanks, that sounds encouraging

      Would still liekt o know the official view on them

      I just brought the .info today and put it up so fingers crossed

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      • Profile picture of the author Richard Tunnah
        Derek,
        I have a bunch of .info domains and many are ranked well. I'm on the first page of google for quite a few of them including one I'm competing with nearly 2 million others. So I'm happy to use them depending if they fit in with what I want to use the sites for.


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  • Profile picture of the author DanCruz
    I think it depends on the keywords you target...

    Like the poster above I've had success with .info domains when targeting long tail keywords usually 3-5 keywords in length.

    The only difference I've noticed within my network is that they take a little longer to index then other extensions.
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  • Profile picture of the author derekchambers
    just found this

    here's a hint of an answer in this Q&A with Matt Cutts:


    Question: I have reported sites that clearly have paid links (e.g. the backlink page says "Advertising" above the link), but Google does not seem to take action. Why would that be the case? These are .orgs who are clearly selling their .org juice.

    Google's Answer: While paid links and spam reports are being taken very seriously by Google, the results may not be seen immediately for users or even not at all. This does not mean no action is being taken on the offending sites. Also, the TLD of the sites should not be a factor being taken into account. For this reason reporting both, web spam and PageRank passing link selling makes sense and contributes in an important way to the quality of Google's index.

    Translation, partly based on .gov/.edu response: Google treats all top level domains the same, so a .org would have no more juice than a .com or .info. Further, clearly marked paid links (ones on pages labeled "Advertising") are not necessarily violations of Google's guidelines. If the links you reported were found to be nofollow links, then no action would be necessary. But keep trying to sabotage the competition. Business is war.

    The above 'translation' is not mine but the moderators. Here's the whole link:

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  • Profile picture of the author faverr
    Independent of what Google thinks of .info domains, does anyone have an opinion about how visitors to a site perceive a .info domain (i.e. if everything were exactly the same except the .info, which was replaced by a .com, would a visitor have a different perception and how significant would it be)?
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    • Profile picture of the author dualdtmz
      Originally Posted by faverr View Post

      Independent of what Google thinks of .info domains, does anyone have an opinion about how visitors to a site perceive a .info domain (i.e. if everything were exactly the same except the .info, which was replaced by a .com, would a visitor have a different perception and how significant would it be)?
      not really, when was the last time you hesitated to click on a link in search engine results because it was a .info? ppl are gonna click regardless. catchy title and catchy description is always best but even so...like i said, ppl click regardless
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  • Profile picture of the author zuberr
    I have noticed that if you have your keywords in your .info domain and you build your links nicely and promote your website well, it really doesn't make much difference whether it's a .info domain or .com, .net etc...
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  • Profile picture of the author JaySchmidt
    If Google is that bothered by inexpensive .info domains, they don't show it. After all, they're more than happy to let you slap some AdSense on the page.

    I have some .info domains, and they seem to do just fine. It might be my imagination, but it seems like it takes a few days for them to show up in the SERPs even after they've been indexed. But once you get a backlink or two, their performance is indistinguishable from that of a .com or other TLD.

    Basically, if someone is squatting on the keyphrase TLD I want, what am I supposed to do? I just buy the .info and get to work. For smaller, 30-40 page sites, it's not that big a deal.
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  • Profile picture of the author intrnetmarketingprofessor
    I think .info sites fare well compared to their .com counterparts. The content I believe, is what matters. And they still are as good as .coms in terms of gaining an income plus, they are not as expensive as the .coms, so I wouldn't mind going after the .infos for a try.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michi Kono
    Google may pay little more attention to .info but I don't see much issue on that. Because I have an experience ranking a couple of .info sites on the first page of big G and they both stayed up there for a few months.
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  • Profile picture of the author caredog
    Do not buy a .info domain that you plan on developing and making money on. They are ok for certain kinds of tests but "do not" try to create a quality site with them.
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