.info won't rank?

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i talked to three seo guru's an two will rank my .info to the top of Google. While one says don't believe that you can rank a .info only a .com will be good to top 1-3 positions.

So now i am wondering if there is a problem with it should i get a new domain .com ?

thanks

-scoopy
#search engine optimization #info #rank
  • I agree about the .info. I have found that .info domain names only bring people looking for free information. They are not good for ranking either. I highly recommend you always use a .com domain when you can. They work the best. Hope this helps.
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    It's 100% pure nonsense - just an urban myth of internet marketing. The person who told you that simply doesn't know what he's talking about.

    Domain extensions don't affect SEO in any way.

    Matt Cutts from Google says so. He says it in writing and on video. He says it on Google's blog and on his own blog. He says it in the fields and in the hills, on the plains and on the beaches, and on the mountains and in the air, and he invites people to quote him on it.

    It's perfectly true that there are fewer .info domains ranking at the top of the SERP's than .coms (though there are still plenty!), but that's simply because many people wrongly imagine they don't rank as easily, so they don't use them, from choice, when they want to rank well. The result, obviously enough, is that there are fewer of them ranking well. This is the point that many people miss, and don't want to listen to.

    We have a full-length thread on this exact subject at least once a week. This was the last one: I think you'll find it a good read.
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    • Agreed - I have one .info that is ranking for nearly 5 keywords, all in the top 3 with a #1 ranking for 2 keywords. And these are keywords with at least 1,000 EXACT searches each month.

      Do the work and optimize your site the right way. Give it time and fill your site with unique, relevant content, build quality backlinks and you'll start to see your site come up in the rankings (depending on competition, however).
    • Personally I would go with the .com, people will take you more seriously, when I come across websites that say .info, then I assume that I'm going to get free information there, and a .com domain comes across as more professional...and .com stands for company, whereas, info is information ;-)

      If google says jump, then you jump lol ( Not ) :-)
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  • Are these SEO guru's really guru's that you've spoken with? Are the first two offering to get your site to the top of Google?

    Can't see one being that much of a guru if they find it impossible to rank a .info and can only do it with .com's. Besides if it's an information site why wouldn't a .info be just as good?

    There have been quite a few discussions on this, search the forum for it you'll find a lot of interesting information.
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    • its the only .info that i could find with my exact keywords an i will be selling a product nothing officially big but will see a product as an affiliate.

      So it will rnak as well as a .info as a .com then?
  • many .info sites rank as good as .com.
    however .com have little edge over marketing, but thats pretty much it.
  • I have got 4 domains registered with extension .info all 4 rank on the first page of google between number 3 - 7 with the targeted keywords. All extensions are equal in the eye of google. There are a few ranked because few people use .info compare to .com

    It is a matter of back linking.

    PS: Don't believe the gurus until you try it yourself
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    • Here we go again .....

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  • It's just easier for people to type .com that .info. For trademarking and marketing ".com" makes more sense that's all.
  • "travel to Rome" is very competive key phrase.

    Number 1 ranking is a .info domain.
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    • One of the reasons that more .com extensions are seen on the first page of many search results is because there are more of them! As others have said before it is just as easy (or difficult) to rank a .info as it is any other domain name extension.

      I have yet to meet anyone who cares what the domain extension is if the website has the information he/she is looking for.
  • A .info will rank, it will just take a lot more work to get it there.

    I've started sets of sites at the same time and ran them through the same promotion strategies. The last set had .com's, .net's, .org's and one 1 .info.

    The .info took a week longer to get indexed and it took several months longer to start ranking on keywords.

    You can rank a .info. I was talking someone the other day that had a .info at #1 for a one word keyword. However, it will take a lot more work to get it there than if it were on a .com, .net, or .org.

    For myself, I'm now just buying .info's for satellite/feeder sites. I'm not buying .info's for sites I'm trying to rank unless I absolutely cannot find a decent domain on any of the other .tld's.
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    • Everything was looking good until this came along... anyone can back this up?

      -scoopy
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  • I have found for online marketing, that .orgs, .coms and .nets and .infos all rank. It comes back to backlinks, how much traffic you drive, and the quality of your content.

    If you have an offline business, it is much better to use a .com because you are marketing to people face to face, and it is much easier for them to find a .com website than any other extension. "It's normal for a website to have a .com" LOL That has been my experience.
  • I have couple of .info sites and they are doing well.
  • scoopy,

    If you want to know, test it for yourself.

    Register a domain in each tld, target keyword phrases with similar competition, do the exact same things to promote them and see what the results are.

    That is what I did and I shared what the results were from that.

    Some things are subjective, others can be measured. This is one that is pretty easy to measure.
  • SEO wise, .info = .net = .com = all others...
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    OP, do a Google search for the keyword pagerank, look at the 2nd site listed in the SERP, it's a .









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    • Yukon beat me to it with my favorite. Any variation of google pagerank,
      pagerank checker, etc. will give that dot info top billing. Now if google
      gives top billing to a dot info for one of their own home grown products,
      what on earth does that actually say about dot info and "trustworthiness"?
      And ability to rank? On google?

      I am going to pledge to never read another one of these threads again. Maybe.

      Bgmacaw has obviously pledged to keep her beak closed.

      After Alexa Smith posts, what more could there be to say?

      Paul
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  • Were these "gurus" standing outside the liquor store bumming smokes?
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  • Too much spam has been going on with the .info's ever since they came out. People testing and testing with them using black hat methods and it's going no where fast.
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    • You are right, whenever someone buys a domain name whatever the extension they should check the domain history of the particular domain as I know few people that bought some .com's and they could not get it indexed at all and it turned out that the spammers had run them to the ground before selling them on. And that can happened to any domain with any extension. But If it is a new reg then there is no problem.
  • domain extensions don't matter, even with co.cc, you can rank
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    .info won't rank?

    i talked to three seo guru's an two will rank my .info to the top of Google. While one says don't believe that you can rank a .info only a .com will be good to top 1-3 positions. So now i am wondering if there is a problem with it should i get a new domain .com ?