What do you do when [Exact Keyword Match] Domain isn't available?

That advice is typical. Typical and way off the mark.
Dot info's are just fine, if it really mattered, that is.
But the extension does not really matter.

Paul

Forgive the inquisition, but in exactly what way do they "tend to suck" and how did you reach that conclusion?

The reason I ask is simply because in my experience, and in the experiences of many successful SEO'ers on this forum (and others), less popular gTLDs such as .info and .biz really don't carry any intrinsic SEO disadvantages.

Quite frankly, the notion of them doing so is rooted in myth and based on hearsay. But once someone decides to believe it, they often substantiate it in their own minds with flawed analysis and backwards thinking, and then go on to perpetuate it for the whole cycle to start again with the next person. :rolleyes:

That is to say, many people subscribe to the belief if they don't see many .info domains ranking in the top spots in the SERPs, it must be an indication that they're ineffective for SEO. All it's really an indication of is that less people use them for SEO purposes - largely because they too subscribe to this faulty belief.

Speaking purely in terms of SEO, there's really no measurable difference between the intrinsic ranking potential of a .com, .net or .org, and a .info, .biz or any other gTLD (and even some ccTLDs which have been "opened up" for global/generic use). Their ranking potential is limited only by the amount of work one puts in.

Nothing wrong with .info domains. A variation of the EMD is much less effective than an exact match .info domain.

Can you prove why .info's suck? :rolleyes:
I recently outranked .com .net and .org guys for my main keyword with an .info domain which is not even an exact match domain, and the competition is like a war going on for top 5-6 position.

So what im saying is that TLD doesn't really matter, you can rank any domain if you know the game well.

But wouldn't that be unappealing to your audience? therefore resulting in less organic views if you do rank well?

wouldn't that mean that it does get searches? and I know for a fact it does..

well that is your own version, cos when the exact match is not available, I tent to think that the keyword is good and people are already using it.

Quite a few, in fact I believe makemoneyonline.info is fairly high up so it can be done. Besides it's not really a fair argument because there are many many many more .com domains than anything else. Whilst your post maybe accurate, they are statistics and statistics mean nothing to the individual.

There is zero proof that any domain extension holds any extra weight - that is fact.

yea... I do that sometimes, I guess it's cos of my addiction to exact match domain names but these days if I'm targeting something like clearpores and all the exact match is taken, I just go for something like clearpore.net or cleapores.net and it turns out pretty well too, I have had tons of success using that strategy with .net domain names.