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Is there a difference between .com .net .co.uk suffixes?

by mcmallyjon
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As in, do search engines place greater value on .com domains than say, .net domains?



Cheers for any replies!
#couk #difference #net #suffixes
  • Profile picture of the author Karan Goel
    That's just to say.

    Some case studies show that domain extensions
    hardly have any affect on SERPs. Whereas, some
    experiments show conversely.

    What I would suggest if go for a .com. If not
    available, go for the .net, and then prefer .org.

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    • Profile picture of the author Beverley Watts
      I would always go for the .com first followed by .net

      However if your market is specifically UK then .co.uk is good too
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      • Profile picture of the author mcmallyjon
        k cool, thanks for the speedie replies!
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        • Profile picture of the author troy23
          Google is placing less emphasis on this as well as having the keyword in the domain name.

          .Info is the cheapest and will rank just as well depending on your keyword choice.
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      • Profile picture of the author Matt Broody
        Originally Posted by Beverley Watts View Post

        I would always go for the .com first followed by .net

        However if your market is specifically UK then .co.uk is good too
        also org are not bad
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        • Profile picture of the author Pete Lauder
          .com and .net are both generic top level domains, gTLD, and your .co.uk is a ccTLD, meaning country code.

          As Beverly said, targeting a country with a specific ccTLD is a good tactic, but do not expect an easy ride to achieve global reach with a ccTLD. It is doable, but gTLD is the easiest way.

          I have never found any reason to think that Google ranks .com, and .net differently, but Joe public will always give .com the edge.

          If you had my-ace-domain.net at #1 in Google, and my-ace-domain.com at number 2, then, the dot com would most likely recieve more clicks through public perception.

          They simply believe .com's are better.

          Then, over time, the .com would overtake the .net naturally through higher traffic stats.

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  • Profile picture of the author corsleymaxwell
    Yes!
    Read this one. I have found this.

    registrar.) In the English language it is consistently pronounced as a word, dot-com, and has entered common parlance this way. .uk is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United Kingdom.The use of .uk rather than .gb for the top-level domain is due to its pre-existing use in the (now obsolete) JANET Name Registration Scheme in which the order of address components were reversed. .uk was made available in DNS to simplify the translation to and from these addresses. There were plans for eventual transition to .gb, but this never occurred and the use of .uk is now entrenched. Check the links for more information.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Cole
    The seach engines care about content, not suffixes. Do your SEO right and you'll rank.

    People, on the other hand, think dot com when they think URL.Type in an address and .com is automatic.

    For business purposes go for .com, it's the authority address. Yes, .info and the rest are CHEAPER, but not less expensive. What's the difference?

    Say you have ten domains, all .info and you save about $50.00 to $60.00 a year on domain fees. How much did you lose when visitors focused on the .info and thought,
    "OH, a knock-off site." and clicked away.

    And to be perfectly honest, if don't want to put out an exrta five or six bucks for a .com you need to seriously think about whether you want to have a business or a hobby.
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