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Very nice game mechanics since on HN the 'old boys' have some advantages when submitting and commenting. But I would like to know more about you guys and why o
by tferris 14y ago
Very nice game mechanics since on HN the 'old boys' have some advantages when submitting and commenting.
But I would like to know more about you guys and why or how you want to get traction on this before I put myself on the waiting list.
Besides: I love the .io TLD, it looks nice and it's typed fast but won't bring you less search traffic since Google haven't ranked it as a generic TLD yet (like .co, .biz, .org, .com, etc.)
Another side point: HN lost traffic over time when looking on Alexa, I don't know if this relates to the real traffic though.
EDIT: a small note: .io brings you then less search traffic when you try to target more than 1 country/language. If you just target let's say en-us you can set (one) target audience in Webmaster Tools which then would be us-en despite being on .io but if you target more than 1 language then you have a problem since you cannot address multiple targets and you should go with a gTLD or gccTLD. However, if you want to get some decent search traffic choose ALWAYS .com (or at least .net or .org but nothing else, you need much more efforts with other TLDs to rank similar to a .com)
- jmartens 14y agoUnrelated question....is .me ranked by Google as a generic TLD?
- tferris 14y agoWikipedia says yes ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.me ) but to go for sure go to the Google Webmaster Tools and somewhere deep in the menus you can check which TLD are classified as generic EDIT: here is Google's list of gTLDs and gccTLDs (generic TLDs with country code), fresh from Webmaster Tools, so .me is included but as said .io is still not included .aero .biz .cat .com .coop .edu .gov .info .int .jobs .net .mil .mobi .museum .name .net .org .pro .tel .travel .as .bz .cc .cd .co .dj .fm .la .me .ms .nu .sc .sr .tv .tk .ws https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1347922 https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...
- jmartens 14y agoThanks.... sorry for hijacking the thread :)
- matthuggins 14y agoCome someone link to (or explain in detail) some info about Google and how it ranks generic vs. non-generic TLDs? Where did the list of .co, .biz, .org, & .com come from?
- tferris 14y agohttps://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1347922 https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...
- matthuggins 14y agoThanks :)
- tptacek 14y agoThe commenting advantage is obvious, but what's the submission advantage? I'm pretty much used to all my submissions falling off the site with 2-4 points.