Are regional domain TLDs harder to rank in global SERPS than .com?
Whitey
1:13 am on Jul 30, 2010 (gmt 0)
Is the effort required to get regional TLD's to rank in global SERP's more difficult than using a .com domain ?
What I'm seeing seems to be , but i just wondered what the thoughts were amongst webmasters.
tedster
2:58 am on Jul 30, 2010 (gmt 0)
In my opinion, yes. It's much more difficult to rank a ccTLD on google.com.
c41lum
8:30 am on Jul 30, 2010 (gmt 0)
Iv got to agree its very hard to get a .co.uk listed global.
Nuttakorn
9:20 am on Jul 30, 2010 (gmt 0)
It can be done technically but you need source of back links from US or dot com websites.
HuskyPup
10:16 am on Jul 30, 2010 (gmt 0)
More difficult? In my opinion yes but it can also be equally difficult to get a .com to rank in the regional SERPs if there are good, relevant local sites on their local ccTLD.
aakk9999
1:33 pm on Jul 30, 2010 (gmt 0)
From my experience:
1) ranking ccTLD on google.com - in my experience, harder than .com TLD 2) ranking ccTLD on google regional where region is different to ccTLD - even harder
Someone tried to pursuade me a while ago to register a whole bunch of .info sites , but i declined because i thought the effort wasn't worth it. Actually i had no idea. I wonder if that was a wise or false assumption.
tedster
10:27 pm on Aug 3, 2010 (gmt 0)
All gTLDs start out on a common footing on Google. There is no pre-applied negative factor for being a .info or .biz. This also holds for a few ccTLDs which Google treats as gTLD, such as .tv, .fm and so on.
From launch on, it's still sink or swim on your own merits - and there is such a thing as market perception. I'd say it's probably harder to get strong links for a .biz than it is for a .com right now.
