does a .com extension have an SE result advantage?
 

Does .com have an advantage of .us when being searched for ?


Thanks

no

interesting question in practise no but a dot com should be able to rank higher..

The main advantage is type in.

If I tell you I have a product called Mywidget, what will you type into an se to find it? mywidget.com.

yea I would type .com, but someone is ginving 25 .info domains away form free. I reformatted and lost the link :(

Ah well.. nothing ventured nothing gained.. nothing lost.

you will see a TONS of .info domains in google in the next weeks.. hehe

Everyone giving them away free ?

nop

no

Not everyone, but a number of registrars are giving away 25 free .infos (first year only), with Afilias (the folks who run .info) underwriting the promotion. I get spammed about this by registrars regularly.

The one I heard about ended it. Can you link me to one please ? I'll play with some blog's :)

actually in terms of alphabetical listing in directories it does, so by ranking higher in content replicated directories like dmoz you get a better ranking on link popularity based search engines like google.

does it effect it directly
no
does it effect you indirectly
yes

I had not heard of the free ones.

Ahh but right now I have no use for one.

The only advantage .coms really have is that people are more likely going to click them in the serps.

A lot of people learned that .info .biz domains or subdomains will result in spam, popups, redirects, ...

I do not say this is always the case.
But a clean indexed .com gets more exposure from what I've noticed!