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Thank you for your detailed reply Ryan.

I see what you're saying. I was thinking of .org domains mainly for the exact search term match domain names. If .org had any other inherent advantages, it would be a small bonus.

Since on-page is a very strong factor for my target keywords, I think this might give me some advantages.

1. That's just not true, as sad as it may be. $6.99 on GoDaddy, not questions asked. Even cheaper than a .com.

2. I know, my question is why not use it anyway?

3. Well... if two sites have more or less the same level of trust in the eyes of Google, I am betting the .org will get a little nudge.

Even if that is true (and I'm not sure it is), I was thinking of getting .org for the exact search match, more than for the .org-ness of them.

Hi,

I am new-ish to SEO, and something just dawned on me today. I have read in many places that .org domains rank higher (even if slightly) than .coms.

Then why doesn't everyone just purchase .org TLDs?

For example, in my industry, most good .com domain names are taken, but .orgs are almost all free. Why not purchase a .org and capitalize on exact match search results?

seomoz is .org and it's far from being a non-profit

Oh... but the proverbial rabit hole goes even deeper 

If I have local sites, with better local search results, I have more local linking opertunities. Since these landing pages will be linking to the main .com site, this will also be giving some link juice to the main site. So these links not only boost the local results, but also boost .com site, no?

Thank you for the detailed reply!

We are an Internet only business. We will not be taking advantage of Places and localized listings, etc.

I agree with your customer acquisition perspective, given a choice, I would opt to first visit a local site.

In terms of cost, it will be negligible. The cost of these domains is less than 10$/yr. and all our English content is done in-house, so it's bought and paid for anyway.

But still, would localized landing pages, with just several pages (or maybe even just one) of content and links to the main site hurt the main site in any way or render the localized domain useless?

I'm currently leaning towards giving it a try, I just don't want to end up shooting myself in the foot.

It's a moderately competitive industry, but most sites are global and don't make any local effort. On-Page SEO is very powerful even for the global site. I'm guessing the local site will have even more weight put in the on-page factors. The questions is, will having a .com.au site give me an advantage with searches on google.com.au, for example.

For languages other than English, I would opt for a local domain, and I agree that it should not be a problem. As for TLDs for English speaking countries, I would still like to have a local TLD. I was thinking of maybe making a local landing page for the TLD, which gives some country specific content, and links to the .com site for further information and registration. Any thoughts on that?

Hi,

I have a website geared towards an international crowd. It is written in English on the .com TLD. We are currently having it translated to Japanese on the .jp TLD and to French on the .fr TLD. Is getting a TLD for each country/translation a good way to go? Not only in terms of SEO, but is this the best way to get found in these other countries?

Second questions: Would getting TLDs in other English speaking countries do any good? Like .com.au or .com.nz or .ca? Again, both in terms of SEO and reach for users in those countries.

Last question, since I'm not going to change the content much (or any...) for the other English TLDs, how should I go about them? 301 redirect to the .com website? Show same content without a redirect? Other idea?

Thank you in advance!

-Elad

I guess it IS buying links, but I have read many reviews saying they are ok (Which might just be part of thier network of sites :))

It seems like cheating, but they say they do the leg work, that it's not just automatic junk links.

Any experience with them?

Thank you!

Hi, I'm new to seomoz (and seo in general) and loving it so far.

My main domain name is more of a brandname than a search engine friendly list of keywords. I rank well for some keywords I optimized for, and less so for the more competitive keywords. I was wondering if making one page minisites hosted on keyword rich domain names could help in this respect?

What I want to do is just have a single page with a few paragraphs of content and links to the main site. I am not looking for links to boost the main site, just for the minisites to do better for several keywords.

Will this help? Is this ok, or against some Google policy? Can this hurt the main site rankings?

Thank you!

**Edit: **I noticed that sites ranking above me on the first page for some keywords have much less on-page elements than my page, have about the same domain trust and also very little inbound links. The only factor I can see is the exact match of keywords in the domain name.