is .biz gonna hurt seo?

[cuce]

I have a client who has a domain that is a .biz an d she really likes it, but she has heard that .biz doesn't perform in the search engines. Is this true and why or why not?

thank you!

[tedster]

The search engines all seem to say that the TLD does not matter - there are many other and much better factors for them to look at to determine relevance.

I know of several multi-million dollar business ventures happily using .biz - but as with any domain, all the seo factors come into play, including keyword competitiveness. I would say that a nice, neat .biz is better than a 60-character-multi-hyphen .com

[maximillianos]

I would agree that the TLD is becoming less and less important, but the "age" of a domain seems to remain important. And age is indirectly related to TLD, since the .com's have been around a lot longer than .biz, etc.

[Tomness]

Also, more traffic would come from a .com on the chance that a user is to guess the website's url.

If you say to someone you run a company called "red ink" the first thing they will try is redink.com.

90% of the time when I have guessed a URL to a website for a company, band, or anything like that - it has been correct.