A domain hack at #1…
In reference to my last posting about Google looking beyond .com, this time a domain hack is at #1 for a very common name… (read to the end, I’ll post there)
Now I’m not showing these things to devalue .com, but I do want these examples to serve as a wakeup call for those that park their names OR put very little thought into their development.
There’s domainers out there that are taking what others think are less valuable dot tld extensions (net, info, org, biz, ws, tv and odd foreign ones) with super premium keywords, developing them and generating far more in revenue then the super premium name with the .com attached to it.
If you wait too long to develop, it’ll be that much harder to be in the top ten serps. Anyone with any dot tld extension can simply, with good content, zoom to the top.
Let me say this: .com is still king especially for worldwide popularity, advertising campaigns, easier recall and so forth.
When it comes to serps, .com is still more credibile in the eyes of most people when deciding which to click.
Here’s the domain: Go to Google and type in MATT. You’ll see ma.tt at #1.
TIP: If you go to the domain forums and you see some poor old domainer who is trying to offload a list of premium keyword domains with dot tld extensions other than .com on the cheap, think twice before skipping to the next post.
K, I’m gonna take a break here and go fix me a tomato sandwich…
Not sure to understand this post.
Ma.tt is has around 11,000 links back.
So it’s nornal it’s good SEO job be paying.
What ever be the domain name and the extension, when there is content updating everyday, a bunch of links back from goo areas, it’s normal the site ranks well for the site name or main anchor.
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If all this was to prove that the extension is not taken in consideration by serps when calculating the ranking for a keyword then YES it’s true (nothing new here).
Now will the site my domain.tld will rank well for “mydomain” or “mydomaintld”?
If a SEO work has not been done like fpr the example above then response is NO, and whatever is the tld.
**John- Agree. I was just showing others that there isnt any “worthless” domain extensions. You’ll still need SEO work to rank high just like you said. Also those extensions prove that with good SEO they can still rank high and that the extensions are not worthless or prevent you from ranking high. Thanks for the response
Comment by Francois — April 18, 2008 @ 2:53 pm
Interesting discovery!
Looks like ma.tt belongs to the founder of wordpress though, so I’m guessing with that kind of link juice (from all the WP users) he can rank for pretty much anything.
P.S.: Gotta check if I can reg Micha.el
Comment by Michael — June 13, 2008 @ 7:56 pm