.us vs .com domain

Which is more popular?

[cicgirl]

I currently have a .us domain and my website does pretty well. However, I have a .com unused domain name.

My question is... Would it serve me better to use the .com name and make it active or does it really matter?

What should I do if I choose to use it just have the .com as a mirror to my .us site?
Many thanks

[ogletree]

If all you ever want is se traffic and type in traffic is not important then don't worry about it. A .us name is going to confuse a certain number of people. A .com is always best when advertising and when you are trying to get type in traffic. If you have a .us and not the .com the person with the .com will get some of your traffic. As far as SE traffic if the .us is indexed and you own the .com just advertise and brand the .com. Set the .com up as a seperate website that has a dissallow in the robots.txt and have it redirect to the .us. Of course if you do this you run the risk of wasting backlinks that people give you to the .com. I just never use anything but .com unless the .net has some real value like an old site with lots of links or type in traffic.

[cicgirl]

ogle,
My .us is indexed, so I just advertise and "brand" the .com? Explain this a little please.. You mean that I should make an entirely new site with the .com and make them seperate? Not to point to the .us
what is a disallow in the robots .txt?

[ogletree]

I was saying you can have the .com point to the .us but make sure that g does not know about it to avoid dup content. If you make a file called robots.txt and put it at the root of any website it tells the se bots where they can and can't go. You can view the one at WW by typeing in [webmasterworld.com...] Don't use that one unless you understand all that it does you may not want to do all that Brett does. First off it will take your site out of the wayback machine and exclude your site from several SE's. To make sure you site is not spidered by most SE's just put

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

in your robots.txt file.

[bakedjake]

More people are familiar with .com than .us.

If you decide to go with the .com, consider redirecting the .com to the .us or vice versa instead of mirroring.

[ogletree]

What I said assumes that the .com has it's own webspace.

[cicgirl]

oh, points taken. I am considering just making the .com a totally different site with totally different content. That's ok and then I don't have to worry about the gb's blacklisting me for dup content. Thanks both of you

[ClueLess2]

>>I am considering just making the .com a totally different site with totally different content.<<

Will you then have links from your .com pointing to your older .us site? Or do you plan to have no links at all betweem the two sites?