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Do you have any sources on SEO benefit to being a .com instead of a .net/.co.uk/.me? I know .edu's get a bump and I wouldn't be surprised if .com's did as well

Do you have any sources on SEO benefit to being a .com instead of a .net/.co.uk/.me? I know .edu's get a bump and I wouldn't be surprised if .com's did as well but I've never had that confirmed.

tomku 14y ago
I don't know that there is one, I just meant "better" from a branding perspective. Interesting question though, I'd love to know if there was TLD-specific bumps.
- freshhawk 14y ago
  Ah, gotcha. That's a branding advantage that disappears a little more every year as consumers get more internet savvy, but it's certainly still a factor.
nl 14y ago
I know .edu's get a bump No they don't. While some insist that simply having a .edu domain, regardless of the site’s quality, content, and incoming links, will give you more weight with the major search engines, it’s just not true. Who says so? Matt Cutt, a top engineer at Google, in this video.[1][2] and Sadly this whole engagement is based on a faulty assumption: It is not the Edu-toplevel domain which gives universities such a high relevance in Google for their references but the backlink-structure of the domains themselves. Universities have the advantage that on one hand, in most cases they have had online representations for a long time (stanford.edu for example was registered 1985) and on the other hand they have lots of content which was and is linked voluntarily. This is a long time to (unconsciously) build a “great” backlink-structure in Google's point of view.[3] Hopefully that addresses your second point, too: I wouldn't be surprised if .com's did as well but I've never had that confirmed You should be astonished if they did. Having said that, some early naive autocomplete implementations in browser address bars bias .com over other extensions. I'm not sure anyone has ever measured the impact of this. [1] http://www.searchenginejournal.com/truth-about-edu-domains-registration-links-and-google-juice/6095/ http://www.searchenginejournal.com/truth-about-edu-domains-r... [2] The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EE163OGjfo&feature=gv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EE163OGjfo&feature=gv [3] http://www.sistrix.com/blog/751-the-.edu-domain-myth.html http://www.sistrix.com/blog/751-the-.edu-domain-myth.html
- freshhawk 14y ago
  Interesting, I picked up some BS SEO tips along the way. Thanks for correcting me.

Do you have any sources on SEO benefit to being a .com instead of a .net/.co.uk/.me? I know .edu's get a bump and I wouldn't be surprised if .com's did as well but I've never had that confirmed.

tomku 14y ago

I don't know that there is one, I just meant "better" from a branding perspective. Interesting question though, I'd love to know if there was TLD-specific bumps.

freshhawk 14y ago
Ah, gotcha. That's a branding advantage that disappears a little more every year as consumers get more internet savvy, but it's certainly still a factor.

nl 14y ago

I know .edu's get a bump No they don't. While some insist that simply having a .edu domain, regardless of the site’s quality, content, and incoming links, will give you more weight with the major search engines, it’s just not true. Who says so? Matt Cutt, a top engineer at Google, in this video.[1][2] and Sadly this whole engagement is based on a faulty assumption: It is not the Edu-toplevel domain which gives universities such a high relevance in Google for their references but the backlink-structure of the domains themselves. Universities have the advantage that on one hand, in most cases they have had online representations for a long time (stanford.edu for example was registered 1985) and on the other hand they have lots of content which was and is linked voluntarily. This is a long time to (unconsciously) build a “great” backlink-structure in Google's point of view.[3] Hopefully that addresses your second point, too: I wouldn't be surprised if .com's did as well but I've never had that confirmed You should be astonished if they did. Having said that, some early naive autocomplete implementations in browser address bars bias .com over other extensions. I'm not sure anyone has ever measured the impact of this. [1] http://www.searchenginejournal.com/truth-about-edu-domains-registration-links-and-google-juice/6095/ http://www.searchenginejournal.com/truth-about-edu-domains-r... [2] The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EE163OGjfo&feature=gv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EE163OGjfo&feature=gv [3] http://www.sistrix.com/blog/751-the-.edu-domain-myth.html http://www.sistrix.com/blog/751-the-.edu-domain-myth.html

freshhawk 14y ago
Interesting, I picked up some BS SEO tips along the way. Thanks for correcting me.