Google and extensions other than "dot com"
 

Hi guys,

From my point of view, extensions other than "dot com" (and the associated "dot xxx" when you choose it) are not good for Google rankings. Am I right ?

No. From a business branding point of view, you want the dot com. Having said that, great content, frequent updates and on/off page SEO are the keys to good rankings.

Ray
Hardlinks.org
An easy way to get backlinks

Dot Com is King:2 cents:

Point made. :thumbsup

Thanks for your shares. I just forget to point that it was for affiliate free sites and not pay ones.

While most of the top porn results are .com domains but there are some .sex, .cam, .porn or .xxx domains that are doing pretty well.

Domain extension has nothing to do with google rankings but some extension are bad,
some bad looking extension like .tk .cc .info more on this site:
https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
If you think about a good domain for years, avoid cheap domains .See so happened with domain extension .xyz: -
https://www.searchrpm.com/blog/whats...search-console


tnx.

Keep buying those spammy long multi keyword .com domain names (<facepalm>)

For what keywords?

I do not remember which ones specifically, but I sometimes do some researches and from time to time, I see such domains ranking pretty well.

:thumbsup

You ever handicap a horse race?
Think of Google search as your racing sheet.

• take each TLDs years of existence
• assume the time that domains are developed in -- this is a wide assumption. This also affects the TLD extension's brand value to some degree -- less every day IMO
• factor the length of the domain name and or its semantics.

Take 100 SERPs listed for the same keyword.

70 -80% on the names will be .com but I think you need to understand the reason -- the reasons have little to do with the TLD itself.

(This applies to the broad internet rather than just adult, but it may still apply) .com is still king, but not what it was 10-15 years ago when individual projects were built on a single platform (a .whatever website). Now projects are fragmented across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and mobile apps to the point that a website may even be optional. And once you get into that debate over whether or not you need a website here in 2017, the debate over what domain extension to use becomes an insignificant detail.