Do people look at the domain name / page url when scanning the top ten search engine results to decide where they should click?
Has anyone seen any studies on click thru rates when users see different domain extensions but matching keywords within domains that appear on the first page results?
for example - some one searches for the keyword "example"
search results show title tag, grabbed page content and the domain name and page name
if people do look at also the domain name name
1 www.example.us
2 www.example.net
3 www.example.com
4 www.example.org
5 www.example.info
Which would you click on?
or does everthing just relate to the amount of actual domain extensions that are owned?
Cheers
[edited by: tedster at 1:43 am (utc) on May 22, 2005]
[edit reason] use example for domain names [/edit]
More concerned about quality of site and its content than it's URL.
People will type .com by default but there's some hope that they're learning.
When using domain examples here use a generic reference: Widgets.tld or the like. Don't use specific examples as they are an invitation to spamming the forum.
People will type .com by default but there's some hope that they're learning.
Of course in the UK people also type ".co.uk" by default.
