Is SEO harder for a .info?

Good answer, James.

Really?

Please share your research then. Not other people's opinions, but actual research.

If this were the case, then a 3rd party page on a google product would not
get ranked. But prchecker.info owns the niche for pagerank, pr, pr checker, etc.

I guess neither they nor google got your memo. Maybe google will read
this and prchecker.info will get dropped. I guess the trust factor slipped
through on this one. It's good that you pointed this out and google can
zap that nasty .info.

Paul

And you built backlinks on the exact same 200 sites to each of the domains? And you made sure the same backlinks were indexed for each site? Then you repeated this test several times to make sure your findings were accurate?

Let me get this right.

You first created 5 empty WordPress sites:

keyword.com
keyword.org
keyword.net
keyword.info
keyword.biz

Then you created 200 backlinks to each of the sites with 'keyword' as the anchor text?

Did you use the same backlinking sites for each domain?

Then I assume you waited for each domain to be indexed?

Then you added the exact same content to each domain?

Then how long did you wait?

What sort of difference was there in the SERPS?

Did you check the percentage of backlinks indexed?


I know that's a lot of questions, but for your test to have any validity, it's important to fully understand your method.

I think you should say that .info .net and .org does not rank well for YOU, otherwise other people might get an idea that .com has some magical SEO advantage.

You should buy it. They rank just as well.

There are at least 5 new threads on this topic every day, so that's not a big surprise.

Anyway, I've never THOROUGHLY tested it, but in my experiences .info rank just as well as any other extension. People tend to see less of them in the results, so they naturally think they don't rank very well. But remember, there are fewer .info's registered. And a good portion of the ones that actually have been registered are just sitting due to lazy marketers.

You do realize that's a load of BS (right)? :rolleyes:

This is just plain wrong. TLD extensions don't affect SEO in any way, and never have done.

But long experience in this forum has taught me that there simply isn't a way to prevent people from believing total nonsense of this kind.

There are literally hundreds of threads just like this one in this forum and they're all basically the same, and they all explain the same thing, and they all explain the same reasons for it, and some of them have links to videos in which Matt Cutts from Google explains it, too ... but if people prefer to cling to totally misguided beliefs based on the urban myths of internet marketing, rather than learning something, what can you do?

I am sorry jacobs,

I HATE to be negative. I believe it's not warranted in the vast majority of cases. But this is just absurd and uneducated at best.

So "ONE SAMPLING," or "THREE SAMPLINGS," of unverified, unknown and unsubstantiated pieces of data in your “vacuum,” constitutes "FACT?"

Then hun, why do others rank just fine?

Hun, I'm so sorry to be hard on you, but you can't postulate upon what you've presented. Don't you think those that are far more educated in the areas of research and marketing would have already noticed a disparity and complied data to this affect?

"Note to self, if jacobs makes anymore posts, scrutinize anything and everything he says. He's reckless"

That's reckless hun!

If you said it was your opinion I would say "great! You’re learning." But, when you come across as having conducted unimpeachable research, you stepped over the line. You have no right to come across as some expert hun, with your pedestrian schoolyard proof.

If you like research, take college courses in that vein, and learn marketing, or statistical analysis. See hun, what you wind up doing it to get others (who don't know any better) to believe you. That is the true danger. This is how inaccurate information starts on the web, and spreads.

On the other hand Jacob -- it could be possible that certain consumers may have more trust in .com's than .info's. I do not doubt that such a balance of opinion could exist. However, as the ".info's" become more mainstream and grow in usage, we become more familiar with them as well. Typically, and historically, such dynamics lead to larger acceptance. It's simply the way of the world.

Will they ever garner the level of "trust" that a .com has? That is debatable; for some market segments it would, for others, it might lag to a degree. But to attempt to "parlay" or interconnect that into the other argument discussed earlier? Perhaps someone of great youth may believe such an argument, but, it wouldn't seem to withstand the test of any logical debate.


Danni~

Yea, and Yahoo controls more of the search market than Google.....

This is just plain wrong. TLD extensions don't affect SEO in any way, and never have done.

But long experience in this forum has taught me that there simply isn't a way to prevent people from believing total nonsense of this kind.

There are literally hundreds of threads just like this one in this forum and they're all basically the same, and they all explain the same thing, and they all explain the same reasons for it, and some of them have links to videos in which Matt Cutts from Google explains it, too ... but if people prefer to cling to totally misguided beliefs based on the urban myths of internet marketing, rather than learning something, what can you do?

Well In my opinion .info domain don't rank well. Regarding getting links I think .gov and .org domains are the best.

Couldn't be further from the truth :confused: