.tk vs other handle

does .tk rank worse?

[IntegraGsrBalla]

Hello,

Thinking about promoting a .tk website.

Would a website that ended in .tk rank worse that .com, .net, .info or does the extension not matter.

Does Google or Yahoo favor .com's over .tk

Have you heard any probs about .tk websites?

Would the .tk site be showed in america?

Since its not a american handle?

[webnerd]

.TK = TOKELAU
I had to actually look up where TOKELAU was.
Out of curiousity I did search under Google for .tk
and found a lot of high ranking sites with that country code.
Country codes don't seem to effect pr rankings.
Is there any one else with any thoughts on this.

[IntegraGsrBalla]

Yes,

The sites for US customers only.

I am wondering if it will index on american search engines just as it would a .com

[freeflight2]

even if .tk ranks the same as .com users might be reluctant to click on them in the SERPs (I know that I am)... they might either think "which little island is that coming from" or they know that the owner was too cheap to pay for it.

[encyclo]

The trouble with "alternate" domain extensions is not that they won't rank any better or worse than a .com (the SE's don't seem to care), but if there is a site of a similar type on the .com version of the name, a significant proportion of your hard-earned traffic will try to come back to your domain but end up on the .com site.

Even if the .com has a significantly different content, you're still going to be losing repeat visitors because they'll find the .com and think you've gone broke and sold the domain name. Either way, it's not good for business.

Using a domain such as .ws or .tk is OK as long as you realise that it's often a one-shot deal - if you don't get the customer on the first visit, they are less likely to find you again.