Domain Types/Extensions – Are .infos any good ?
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Hi
I know general concensus is to stay away from the non established domain suffix types and concentrate on .coms .co.uk’s etc etc.
But i have an aged .info domain that has some content on it related to a online news paper i have on that subject (on the news paper providers domain sub-folder currently) which i want to focus more time on and put on its own dedicated domain. So i want to upload it to this aged .info domain.
However waste of time if .info domains are bad for seo etc
Does anyone have any experience of .info doing well in serps or should i totally scrap the idea and try find a new .com etc type domain ?
My .info has been live with related content for 7 years so hoping that should count for something
All Best
Dan -
ok thanks for sharing your experience, i appreciate your comments
all best
dan
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ok great thanks for confirming that Martijn
All Best
Dan -
Good to know, I would never use them if you were targeting a specific country but for this it should be fine. I wouldn't worry to much about the .info you'll have bigger problems in your SEO strategy to take care off, so based on that your TLD probably won't make the biggest difference.
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I worked some .info domains ( some microniches ) in the past and they ranked ok! But i read very often that they dont rank so well as .com
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Hi Martijn
Its absolutely working globally by virtue of the papers subject 'digital nomadism': http://paper.li/danlawrence/1352573243
Now i want to put it on www.digital-nomad.info so on its own domain (since this is 7 years old/aged with relevant content)
However I understand it form other seo's/sources etc that .infos, like most other uncommen domain suffixes, are very hard to rank for on google, or rather .coms etc have a much easier job of achieving rankings quicker (all other things being equal of course)
Would appreciate your thoughts (and anyone else reading this who has any experience of .infos etc) ?
All Best
Dan
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Dan, are you only targeting a specific country or are you working globally?
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