ananas7777
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Spit has a .biz domain he plans to use for a cool project.
Right, but has anyone ever found substantial evidence that .com domains are favored algorithmically? I had a .biz domain a couple years back and personally found it more difficult to get the .biz ranking.
Spit is just curious to hear it from someone with experience in the matter.
I am, I know in terms of branding it's going to be a pain, mainly because we as web users are programmed to thing .com - but that's not a big deal for me at this point, I'm more concerned about what the Search Engines will do.
So, views? Opinions? Ideas? Experience to share?
(Oh and please, please, pleeeease don't just state .com is better, .biz is worse for the sake of stating what everyone assumes to be the obvious, at least not without explaining why you see it that way. It won't take you a few extra seconds to share your full opinion, and I promise, every opinion counts and is greatly appreciated!) We have done work on quite a few domain extensions, but haven't done a .biz yet
Well i can tell you that we got sites ranking with the .us extension so that i would say is not much better in the eyes of search engines as .biz.. All i can say is, if you have good content and good SEO then the extension doesn't really matter, as long as your visitor gets the information he/she was looking for.. And when you provide useful information, backlinks come by themselves sooner or later and that means that your rankings will also come sooner or later!
Keep us posted how your experiment goes, i am surely interested in the results. My forum that i sold in 2007 was a .biz one and before i sold it i had it ranked on page 1 for 2 long tail keyword search phrase's. Although i had VBSEO installed on the domain that helped out in the SEO world. lol
It was not easy to get the forum ranked on page 1 but i made that happen and made a profit out of selling the forum.
I agree with the previous posters response. Thank you both for the info, Spit appreciates it!
I do, I also agree with the .us and .biz not being that much different comment, at least that's what I'm hoping for as I have in the past ranked .us domains with ease.
Spit welcomes additional views and opinions as he's sure there's more than this positive side to the situation with valid evidence denouncing the .biz extensions ability to rank and compete with the .com. I think that the .com TLD will always have priority over most others - with the exception of .gov, .edu, and localized searches.
Look at it this way: If you register spit.com and spit.biz - both with the same content, page rank, number of backlinks, etc. - which do you think would show up in the search engine first? If they are both identical except for the TLD then search engines must have a hierarchy. Search engines do not rank domains, they rank web pages. That said, any extension will do.
Right, but has anyone ever found substantial evidence that .com domains are favored algorithmically? I had a .biz domain a couple years back and personally found it more difficult to get the .biz ranking.
Spit is just curious to hear it from someone with experience in the matter.
I am, I know in terms of branding it's going to be a pain, mainly because we as web users are programmed to thing .com - but that's not a big deal for me at this point, I'm more concerned about what the Search Engines will do.
So, views? Opinions? Ideas? Experience to share?
(Oh and please, please, pleeeease don't just state .com is better, .biz is worse for the sake of stating what everyone assumes to be the obvious, at least not without explaining why you see it that way. It won't take you a few extra seconds to share your full opinion, and I promise, every opinion counts and is greatly appreciated!) We have done work on quite a few domain extensions, but haven't done a .biz yet
Well i can tell you that we got sites ranking with the .us extension so that i would say is not much better in the eyes of search engines as .biz.. All i can say is, if you have good content and good SEO then the extension doesn't really matter, as long as your visitor gets the information he/she was looking for.. And when you provide useful information, backlinks come by themselves sooner or later and that means that your rankings will also come sooner or later!
Keep us posted how your experiment goes, i am surely interested in the results. My forum that i sold in 2007 was a .biz one and before i sold it i had it ranked on page 1 for 2 long tail keyword search phrase's. Although i had VBSEO installed on the domain that helped out in the SEO world. lol
It was not easy to get the forum ranked on page 1 but i made that happen and made a profit out of selling the forum.
I agree with the previous posters response. Thank you both for the info, Spit appreciates it!
I do, I also agree with the .us and .biz not being that much different comment, at least that's what I'm hoping for as I have in the past ranked .us domains with ease.
Spit welcomes additional views and opinions as he's sure there's more than this positive side to the situation with valid evidence denouncing the .biz extensions ability to rank and compete with the .com. I think that the .com TLD will always have priority over most others - with the exception of .gov, .edu, and localized searches.
Look at it this way: If you register spit.com and spit.biz - both with the same content, page rank, number of backlinks, etc. - which do you think would show up in the search engine first? If they are both identical except for the TLD then search engines must have a hierarchy. Search engines do not rank domains, they rank web pages. That said, any extension will do.