From both a consumer perspective and SEO search rankings is there any negatives regarding different domain extensions?

From both a consumer perspective and SEO search rankings is there any negatives regarding different domain extensions?
If you use anything other than .com and don't also have .com pointing to it as well, a certain percentage of people will type .com anyway.
.info and especially .biz are heavily used by various fly by night operations. There are of course many reputable users as well, but you may get a little skepticism about your trustworthiness using them.

.info and especially .biz are heavily used by various fly by night operations. There are of course many reputable users as well, but you may get a little skepticism about your trustworthiness using them.

Thanks for replying, I was motivated to use .info for two reasons, I am making a couple of mini-affiliate sites and using a low pressure sales approach, I was reasoning that extension is a legitimate description of the site's educational approach, agreed, .com is the fallback if you enter the address through the address bar and definately a couple of years ago both .info and .biz among others were abused, is that still common today?

Does anyone have a view as far as page rank and penalties are concerned through SEO for these extensions.

Over the years almost all of the big sites and ecommerce giants have been using .com as the extension, so people by default accepts a .com extension as legit sites and for a ecommerce site to succeed you need to get the trust of the visitors and .com helps you in that.

As far as SEO is considered, i doubt there is any difference between a .com or a .info.

I have a .info site which is right now on top of google search for a very competitive keyword and has Page Rank 0 and beating many of the industry giants with PR 5 and PR 6. :)

If you do good on page and off page SEO, you will get good ranking irrespective of the TLD

Suyash

.com looks the most professional of the 3 and is more widely recognized as having to do with companies. SEO and page rank shouldn't matter a bit with any of them.

If you want to be taken seriously as an eCommerce site, you have to be a .com

.com always Recommend

Thanks

it all depends on your business set up.

If you are a for profit company operating online always get a .com

if you are a non profit get a .org

if a .com is not available try and register an extension say "my" or "the", if not look for a .net

.info and .biz are not really memorable like the 3 above however .com and .org have always been the top tier for being memorable.

So, the average consumer is aware of the abused history of .info, to be honest, I have spent hours in front of computers for years and I am not really aware of the scammers using .info as a stalking domain, perhaps this is valid only in certain sectors.

As mentioned in an earlier post, these will be mini-sites, in fact I own what could be called master domains that I am in the process of developing (.com and .net).

Which brings me to another question, one of the problems especially with .com is the fact when looking for short, memorable names they are all taken, and it becomes a real preposition to find a short, memorable name without resorting to dashes.

On that point, any views on including Ecommerce keywords in your domain name that link to the theme of your site, and if so is it just gibberish the search engines if the words are not separated by dashes. Going to alexa topsites; http://www.alexa.com/topsites, many of the top sites domain names are simply people's creative muse with only an obtuse relationship to what they do, it certainly appears that page ranks are also based on a long history on the net and, or the shear grunt work of keywords, back links and so on...

Better you choose .com for its most widely used domain extension worldwide for business purpose. whereas .org is best for organization purpose.

So, the average consumer is aware of the abused history of .info, to be honest, I have spent hours in front of computers for years and I am not really aware of the scammers using .info as a stalking domain, perhaps this is valid only in certain sectors.


I'm not sure how broad the perception is, but it's there. It's not probably as much a problem with .info as .biz, but if you can find a suitable .com it will have more credibility.

for ecommerce i would seriously consider using a .com

SEO is not affected whatsoever by your TLD. As for the consumer perspective... that's a tough call. Many people here seem to simply say "get a .com".. but it's a little more complicated than that. If for example you sold widgets and widgets.info was available, or supergreatwidgetstore.com, I think in that case I would go for the .info.

But as others have said, I too also associate .info with fly-by-night or phishing sites..

SEO is not affected whatsoever by your TLD. As for the consumer perspective... that's a tough call. Many people here seem to simply say "get a .com".. but it's a little more complicated than that. If for example you sold widgets and widgets.info was available, or supergreatwidgetstore.com, I think in that case I would go for the .info.

But as others have said, I too also associate .info with fly-by-night or phishing sites..

I think it boils down to, all other things being equal, get a .com, but don't shoot yourself in the foot by getting an unsuitable .com over a perfect .info.

I can't imagine search engines care if you're site is .info but customers may think your site is informational and not commercial in nature.
Not to say following the crowd is the thing to do, but how many "commercial" sites can you name that end with .info?

Most people associate and remember domain names with a .com.

I have a .info site which is right now on top of google search for a very competitive keyword and has Page Rank 0 and beating many of the industry giants with PR 5 and PR 6. :)Suyash

I am curious, is your .info site for ecommerce and if so what was the motivation considering your view on the subject, if ecommerce can you compare user acceptance of your .info site to your .com sites.

I have a .info site which is right now on top of google search for a very competitive keyword and has Page Rank 0 and beating many of the industry giants with PR 5 and PR 6. :)

If you do good on page and off page SEO, you will get good ranking irrespective of the TLD

Suyash
Nice; care to share how you have a PR0 site so highly ranked? :D Is this a brand-new site?