Comments on: Do Domain Extensions Matter?

By: Facebook Development

Facebook Development — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:13:34 +0000

Great info indeed.

By: Juegos

Juegos — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:48:09 +0000

I believe .com is the best for SEO, it’s true it doesn’t matter very much the extension but from another point of view, all domains are equal except the .com because has a small boost in SERPs for the exact match. Also .org and .net can rank better for exact match keyword than ccTLDs in Google.com. It is logical for a .com, .net, .org as TLDs to have the boost in Google.com, a ccTLD, for example .sk has the boost in Google.sk but can’t have it in Google.com because is a ccTLD, regional domain. It is not impossible to rank a .sk in Google.com but you must work harder or your website should be very special. Have a nice day.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:52:35 +0000

Dot com is the easiest to remember. It is the most trusted and viewed as the greatest authority. In addition, as you said it is internationally recognized by people. Plus it is the only domain extension that you will get any sort of type in traffic.

Also, if someone tells another person about your company that person will type in YourCompanyName.com 100% of the time, in an effort to find your name. And if you happen to have a .net or .biz, there is a good chance you will never be found.

Sure, technically speaking, seo does not prefer one domain extension to another, but if you are serious about your business, you will own your dot com.

By: Domain Name

Domain Name — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:46:15 +0000

Since there is no SEO advantage of TLD, its better to go for the one that is related to your industry. If you have an organization then buying .org is better, .net is also associated with internet-related products etc

By: SEO Consultants - Joel

SEO Consultants - Joel — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:23:46 +0000

I have to agree with you. I believe it is a safe bet to go with .Com’s as well.

By: Utah SEO

Utah SEO — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:48:36 +0000

I observed an update in Google that filtered out all the .info, like they were being penalized. Then they came back they were all knocked down. I think they are cheap and are being used by spammers. Other than the .info you should be fine. But there are still plenty of .info domains that rank. I just think it is delayed.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:21:08 +0000

@Tony: I agree with you. The problem is that all .com TLDs are already taken. Moreover, they have been getting pretty expensive (mainly domains containing frequent keywords and short pronounceable ones) recently. For instance, I paid xxx$ for this domain…

@Frank C, SEO Diva: I agree. Really there have been a cart load of low quality .info websites that could be considered spam. Frankly, I’m not surprised by Google slapping them.

By: SEO Diva

SEO Diva — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:34:30 +0000

Good post!

I heard about the Google slap on .info’s also. GoDaddy was selling them for $.99, so they were super cheap to buy and use as spam sites.

When I can, I’ll register a .com domain with a hyphen, but even those are getting taken pretty fast.

By: Frank C

Frank C — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:35:57 +0000

One thing to note is that .info domains, especially new ones, recently got slapped by Google. Essentially Google said that .infos were being used too much by spammers and that they would require more proof of good intentions before being indexed.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 25 May 2008 20:53:04 +0000

You touched onto the subject that people will generally _guess_ that the domain is a .com TLD. Along the similar line of reasoning, I often guess that a company would have a country specific TLD, if they are doing business locally.

So it might often be the case (or should be the case) that a startup company will buy their domain in every common TLD, and just redirect to their main website. It’s not quite “SEO”, but the typed-in traffic is also quite important. Besides, you wouldn’t want to have a .net domain, and have someone squat your brand name in the .com flavour and serve ads to your users. So if there’s a name you really want, and it’s only available in .net — pick a different name.