Advanced Question - How Biggest Search Engines Evaluate Various tlds ?

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John1968

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I have a couple of questions here.

a. There are various domains tlds in market today.
Global tlds - .com, .net, .org, .info
Country Specific - .uk, .us, .in, .co.in
How does search engines like google, yahoo and msn rank them ?

Taking into consideration following example, if anyone sets up following websites, with similar content, similar SEO, lets assume for a moment everything is similar:
Each website below is hosted across multiple servers worldwide
www.sample.com
www.sample.net
www.sample.org
www.sample.info
www.sample.uk
www.sample.us
www.sample.in
www.sample.co.in

What website among the list above, gets ranked first on the major search engines for any specific keyword ?
google.com
google.co.uk
google.co.in
msn.com
yahoo.com

b. How is Content Spidering handled by this engines ?

c. Shall a co.in and in domain gets more weightwage/results under google.co.in (country specific) ?
Shall a co.uk domain gets more weightwage/results under google.co.in (country specific) ?
Shall a .com domain get more results globally on google.com (used globally, in India as well UK)

d. My Question is very much related to our existing/future business.
Need Proper Guidance on Selection of a proper .tld
We ran a example.com site/forums running smooth since few years, we have no longer access to this .com domain (Personal Issues with the Domain Owner, and have no longer access to this domain.)
We have registered example.net and (example.our country extension) our country specific tlds

What will be the impact on global traffic henceforth ? Since we used to get our maximum traffic via google.

What will the experts here recommend us ? using a .net tld or country specific ? Since we plan to project some business in future via help of our forums.

Thanks
 
As far as I know, the TLD that you register has nothing to do with your SEO. From what I read, it is based on how many high quality links are to your site. The TLD you choose should not be a problem for SEO, but it might be a problem when it comes to whether or not your visitors remember the domain name.
 
webfreak08 said:
As far as I know, the TLD that you register has nothing to do with your SEO. From what I read, it is based on how many high quality links are to your site. The TLD you choose should not be a problem for SEO, but it might be a problem when it comes to whether or not your visitors remember the domain name.
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Lets say for example there is a site named xyz.com running since last 2 years, but they have not been able to make a proper backlink setup (better pr) and better SEO.
Is there a possibility that xyz.co.uk or xyz.co.in domains get ranked first compared to xyz.com

Practically I have seen this working.. Search for the keyword overclock on google, we will find lots of country specific tlds comeup first instead of overclock.com
Sames goes with hardware etc. keywords.
 
Is there a possibility that xyz.co.uk or xyz.co.in domains get ranked first compared to xyz.com
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As I said before, the TLD has no effect on your SEO. It is very possible that a .co.uk TLD will get ranked before a .com TLD if that site has more high quality links pointing to it. I believe we are saying the same thing.
 
webfreak08 said:
As I said before, the TLD has no effect on your SEO. It is very possible that a .co.uk TLD will get ranked before a .com TLD if that site has more high quality links pointing to it. I believe we are saying the same thing.
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thanks again.
I am still confused why do majority of professionals give weightage to .com domain if another tlds can do a better job ?
If the main thing involved is SEO, backlinks to a domain ?
 
I will always pick a .com domain, for the simple fact that their so popular. If I give someone a link to www.mywebsite.zim.tu or something they're obviously going to think its a bit dodge!
Dot.Com's are well known and sometimes less expensive than other arb tlds.
~Equinox
 
Hi Equinox.
We were running on a xyz.com since 2 years, but now lost this domain.
we have following options left xyz.net xyz.info xyz.co.uk

we plan to setup a business via our website (hosted in us) what tld you will recommend us ? or we plan for a completely different domain like abc.com ?

thank you
 
If "xyz" is a superb name, then I would recommend that you go with xyz.net. Otherwise, you may just have to register abc.com. "Industry professionals" like .com because it is the most widely used TLD and when people think of a website, unless they are informed otherwise, they usually think of something.com.
 
Yeah John,
webfreak is right (...again *grumble grumble*)!
It looks like you have more tech-savvy if you have a tld like .com/.org/.net. They are also in the autometad serach for webpages, which is now built into internet explorer / firefox.
If you just type : "xyz" into the location bar, it automatically looks for a reply from www.xyz.com...then xyz.net...then xyz.org and then gives up and goes to a dns error page.
That in its own is insentive enough to make one pay the little bit more for a decent tld!
~Equinox
 
Equinox said:
They are also in the autometad serach for webpages, which is now built into internet explorer / firefox.
If you just type : "xyz" into the location bar, it automatically looks for a reply from www.xyz.com...then xyz.net...then xyz.org and then gives up and goes to a dns error page.
That in its own is insentive enough to make one pay the little bit more for a decent tld!
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Doesn't work for me in IE. I know that it is unnecessary to type the "www" or the "http://".

IMO, I think ".org" looks a little strange for a web hosting business domain name. I'm not saying that any of these companies provide any worse service than those with the .com TLD, but when I think of ".org" I think of a non-profit organization. Just my :twocents:.
 
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