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Hi all, i own a bunch of very short .st Domains and have plans to host sites on them...my question is, do search engines rank these domains lower then .com ?

I ask becauce im finding traffic a very hard thing to achieve on my domain.

Thanks for your help.

Jizzy

It will be hard to rank a domain with that extension.

Better let it expire and go with .com/.net/.org

Thank you Denny, but why should it or is it harder?

some crappy extensions just don't rank.

People will comment on this subject without any experience, you should just case study it yourself - if you think the domain is hurting your rankings just have a .com backup and 301 the site. I would typically use .st for a url shortner rather than building an actual site on it. I have only used .com .net and .xyz which I can say index in google fine.

It really depends on how good you are at this, a shit website with bad SEO won't rank even as a .com

I think the extension only matters for branding, not for SEO. All extensions have the same chance of ranking.

If your domain is easy to remember - which I think it is - it's fine

The extension may be useful when you are targeting a specific GEO. So let's say you have a domain with the extension co.uk it may be easier to rank for keywords such as uk porn et cetera. You may still have a great success with any weird extension if your site is quality.