Which Is The Best TLD?

[Remys]

A question often asked, and yet simple to answer, they are all the same, Google does not giving any bonus or penalty for a TLD, as pointed out by Matt Cutts.

So a TLD does not effect the Google juice you have to rank, BUT it does help Google decide which of it's own SE it gives you priority in.

So if you have a .co.uk then you will rank higher in google.co.uk than someone who maybe above you in google.com

Then only thing you need decide when picking a TLD is which country you are targeting. I see a lot of people fighting to get a high ranking for a UK based company argetting the UK with a .com when they would have ranked far higher and easier for a .co.uk

 

[JMcKaye]

Hi there,

If you obtain a .com domain, then through WMT you can geo-target set the country of which you'd like to target.

The result of this should be that the .com will perform just as well as .co.uk - same goes for any country and any TLD.

.COM will always be the most sought after domain extension, purely because it's the oldest - But Google's Matt Cutts advises that all TLD's are treated with the same authority - however, many are skeptical, as am I to how accurate this actually is.

Thanks.

 

[anon154650]

ICANN are in the throes of introducing their new TLD system which may well throw 2000 new TLDs out on to the Internet. The old rules are about to be consigned to history!

 

[SetupaCompany]

I also treat anything Google say with a pinch of salt. The difference between what they say and what they do is often quite significant.

That said I do think the TLD is now becoming less important than it used to be although purely from a user point of view I still think .com is the way to go or .co.uk if only targeting the UK (and even then having the .com redirecting to the .co.uk is good practice).

 

[The Wholesale Forums]

Only reason why .com is at the top is because of the people using them. Practically, if you are searching for a specific address (example google), you'd start including .com first. But that does not make that specific TLD as special, since if you are targeting a specific region or country, it is best to stick to a domain for the region (.co.uk)

 

[anon154650]

any one tell me what is the Full form of TLD

A top-level-domain is .com, .net, .mil, .gov, .edu, etc. There are also country-code top-level-domains, such as .fr, .uk, .de. Everything under those is technically a sub-domain, so gaztronics.com is a sub-domain of .com. A full-qualified domain-name would be www.gaztronics.com or ftp.gaztronics.net.

Once ICANN unleash their domain sell-off, you will see TLDs like .bank, .radio, .book. It is about to get a whole lot more confusing!

Does that answer your question?

 

[youronlinestuffcom]

i think where your backlinks come from is important.
i had a .com, had no probs ranking it in google.com but i wanted uk traffic and to do that i had to get lots of uk backlinks

 

[venusbrown]

TLD's are always given preference in that particular location. But its not one of the major factors to rank the websites .One of my .com website is ranking well in UK, Canada and Australia, beating demographic specific domains. Rankings depends on many other factors rather than TLDs.

 

[AlexJeffers]

I've always used .co.uk domains for UK based websites, just as a best practice more than anything else, if you expect your target audience to never expand outside of the UK, then use a .co.uk. The only reason for having a .com address would be if your target market is worldwide.

As far as google see's it, I think as long as you aren't using .biz or .info etc domain names then you should be ok!