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Is it true Google gives a better PR to .com's?
Posted by Mkcoy • 7/18/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: google, page rank
Someone just told me that if my site is fallible to switch to a .com instead of the .info as Google will give a better page rank for .com's.
Is that true? It's a bit late I guess but just wondered why. Why does the big G give a better PR for .com's and not for .info's?
Doesn't it matter on a lot of other things like age/incoming links etc?
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.com is what most people try to register first, and the only shortcut (Ctrl+Enter) TLD that works in Internet Explorer.
Try it: kobrascorner (or blogcatalog or google or whatever you want to check) then Ctrl+Enter. In Firefox, you can Shift+Enter for .net and Ctrl+Shift+Enter for .org. Those 3 are the most popular. -
There are many things that go into calculating page rank, but I've never heard of TLD being one of the factors, and I wouldn't worry about that. -
Yeh I know all about the keyboard shortcuts. (thanks for trying to get me to visit your site) What's that got to do with Page Rank though? Someone just posted a reply to a review on my site saying that I should go for a .com if it's fallible as Google will give me a better PR for it. I just wondered what evidence there was if any behind this. I thought it mattered on the things most important such as age of URL and backlinks to it etc etc. It doesn't matter what the TLD is right?
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Can any experts confirm this?
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- I'm no expert and I don't have an answer. What I do observe is that there are appear to be many sploggers and spammers set up on .info domains, which were supposed to be for information-based services. I'm not clear why this is but it could be simply because there are so many of them. I prefer to purchase .com domains.
IMHO a .com site probably doesn’t rank better than a .info because of their TLD extension, but because of their SEO work.
Here's some information on .info domains domains.dan.info/structure/new-tlds.html -
Damn those spammers! :@
Maybe I should have gone for a .com then in hindsight. However I like the fact that a .info is short for information which is what my site has. I suppose I will stick with it. I guess it's all down to the content on the site more than whatever the domain name is anyway.
Here is the domain name in question anyway www.sellyourmobile.info-
- I honestly believe that if you focus on SEO your Google PageRank and consequently, the organic traffic to your blog will improve.
Improving your Google Page Rank
onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/improving-your-google-page-rank/
Twenty five steps to increase blog traffic
onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/twenty-five-steps-to-increase-blog-tra... -
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Thanks tf. Just spent the last 10 minutes or so reading that. There's too much to take it but I need to apply some of the things listed there that I haven't yet so will have to return to it.
Thanks for your help and for providing me with the info that you did.
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