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LadyRLR



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:37 pm    Post subject: .Info or .Com ? Reply with quote
I have always used .com's and have been more fond of those, but I'm considering purchasing a large number of .info's for a project that I'm working on.

Does the top level domain matter when getting ranked by Google or any of the other search engines? Does anyone have any research or theories on that?

Thanks.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I can't think of any possible reason why the search engines would treat a .INFO differently from a .COM.

Any disadvantages would result from how people perceive your sites and how they remember them. You may lose some repeat traffic to the .COM version.
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Dr.Eswararamanan



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have read in some so called gurus books that .info domains are less search engine friendly compared to .com.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Any domain would have a fair chance in ranking. What matters is how well you optimize your site for the keywords you want to rank in - onpage (title, meta, keywords, etc) and offpage (backlinks with your keywords as anchor texts.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dr.Eswararamanan wrote:
I have read in some so called gurus books that .info domains are less search engine friendly compared to .com.

Yeah, I heard it too. I'm not much of SEO expert, but I think I agree on it. That's why .info is way much cheaper than .com.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
They are the same as far as SEO goes. .com is just easier for people to remember and promote offline.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
.info extensions are not taken seriously as they come only after .com .net.org and country TLDs, you'd have to compete with all that when promoting your websites.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Any domain would have a fair chance in ranking. What matters is how well you optimize your site for the keywords you want to rank in - onpage (title, meta, keywords, etc) and offpage (backlinks with your keywords as anchor texts.

That is correct.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The TLD has no affect on rankings. Matt Cutts posted on it in his blog.
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