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.io isn't country specific though; it's being used by tech start-ups mostly.

That's an excellent idea; I'm in no hurry to move, so this will be a great way to test. Thanks!

Thanks; I'm ok with a short term minor loss. I'm quite worried about the long term implications of exact match domains too though; any losses I do could be offset, surely?

Purely because I couldnt find a suitable .com - thats partly why I had a .org in the first place. Targeting is not geographic specific; anywhere English speaking.

I'm considering switching my main site from a .org to .io address; the .org is an exact match domain which helped to kickstart it a few years ago and now has about 50% repeat visitors, but was thrown off the Apple affiliation program for trademark infringement.

I've found and purchased a nice (non-infringing) .io domain, and I've read the advice here on how to properly 301 the old domain; but my question is - does it matter that it's .io? Is this going to significantly hurt my rankings, even when everything has been 301'd properly?

Another thought I had is that I may actually come out better off in the long run, what with Google penalties being applied to exact match domains.

Is this a ranking suicide? If so, I'm tempted to leave it as is; even without the affiliation, it's making a good amount every month in ad fees that I don't want to disrupt.

Thanks all!

Joomla is great for community based sites which require forums and members etc. Wordpress is far simpler for the majority of use cases.

Though I'm not aware of any technical impact from where or how you choose to place social buttons, I've found the greatest share rates to be when you prompt the user with a call-to-action at the end of a piece of content. The best way to do this is with a box that slides in somewhere non-intrusively at the end of the article (if that's the content we're referring to here). There's a great tutorial for this here.

I'd like to add a vote for Wordpress, but nearly any theme which uses standard Wordpress code can be optimized with SEO in mind using a few choice plugins.

I'd actually vote against the Thesis theme though, as it's quite complexly structured code and very difficult to edit if you're not a fan of all those hooks and filters, and you just want to get in there with HTML, PHP, and the default wordpress structure (single, page, archive etc); hundreds of different files for different loops and theme parts.