.com and .net - prefrential treatment

bosco · #1 03-25-2006, 11:01 AM

It is a common perception that .xyz extention makes no difference when it comes to seo excluding .gov and .edu of course. Are you really sure that there is no priority to a .com or .org ?
Search for the word "golf" on google and the first 15 pages are either .com or .org. Is it even conceivable that no one is capable of optimizing a website to get within the first 15 pages that has a golf related .net or .biz or .us website?
Google is revealing more and more that it gives preferential treatment to domains that end with these extentions:

1) .gov
2) .edu
3) .com
4) .org
5) .net
6) .country, like .ca or .us
7) .everything else

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martyn · #2 03-25-2006, 11:11 AM

NO PREFRENTIAL TREATMENT - Think about it logically what does the domain name extension have to do with the quality of the content, the relevance and the improtance of a page in search rankings.
Not only have I never seen any preference for extensions in rankings, I fail to see why a search engine take it into account.

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bosco · #3 03-25-2006, 11:23 AM

I can't believe nobody else sees this. eg. search for "real estate" in google. It will take you until page 10 to find a .net.

All .com's, a few .orgs, a few state sites, and a couple of .gov's.

You must be right. Only people with .com's can do good seo.

similarly do a search for "golf"

Same thing.

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raven · #4 03-25-2006, 11:35 AM

hi mate
The .com's are just more commonly used and have been around for longer, may be they have more links.
Think about it logically why would the domain extension have have anything to do with the content of a site? Why would a search engine want to use the domain name extension as part of the ranking algorithm?

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