Keyword GTLD's wont help you rank better in Google according to Search Engine Land who has wrote that there is zero benefit to owning these.
What do you think?
Read more on Robbie's Blog
http://robbiesblog.com/search-engine-land-says-keyword-gtlds-wont-help-seo-rankings/7183
https://www.google.com/amp/s/search...main-names-mean-google-rankings-seo-82468/amp
So they rewrote the same message that Danny wrote in 2011, Danny Sullivan retired and his words can still be heard from Robbie today,
Genuinely we do not know enough about Google’s algorithm to make statements like this, hence we have so called “expert opinions”
However “Third World Media” would be billionaires if they knew the secret formula, everyone would be contacting them for SEO advice
in 2011 they did not know the formula
and in 2020 they still do not know ...
That being said, no one does, the internet has been public to the average consumer for 20 years and the so called master gurus are still trying to guess the secret formula and this is why 95% of the SEO agencies that exist out there are scams
I think we can all happily agree .com is the king extension as it is the most commercialized extension we have seen, but in 20 years the internet has become so crowded, over populated even, ICANN reported about 330M domains in circulation in 2016 ... good grief, try to register a single keyword domain, let alone a double keyword or a domain that you can actually monetize
In the long run, the internet is growing and it’s okay to explore new space, do we not already apply the same concept to people moving to other countries, states, and cities, why is Elon Musk wanting to build settlements in space ? There is simply not enough room to have one extension in play and the only reason why people debate this, is because they believe that somehow or another a new extension undermines the value of TLDs,
They could not be any more wrong, if anything; with the internet growing, TLDs have become more valuable, and anyone can see that ...
Multiple markets in multiple countries have become developed for the sole purpose of one thing only, the concept of (.com only) ... why is that ? Because the lack of supply of the TLD .com is so tight, that the demand has gone through the roof and now we got greedy middle men and lying brokers doing everything that they can to keep this artificial market alive ... who buys chips and non chips again ? why do Chinese investors buy domains, better yet why does the CCP even care ? The idea of storing your money securely in some asset that appears casually is inviting, similar in a way to crypto or stocks ... Even more funny is the fact Chinese investors are influenced, they will offer peanuts for a non chip domain because the letters are no good ? And they only buy .com ? yet forgive me, I thought Alibaba is the number one portfolio holder of GTLDs ... hmmm, do they know something we don’t ?
- Data collected by Sedo showed that currently 54 percent of all domain names with the new gTLD extensions are owned by the Chinese. As a result of the technology boom in China, due in part from the runaway success of the likes of
Alibaba and
Tencent, the number of domains purchased from within China rose 400% between 2013 and 2015 -
They are billionaires after all ... why does Amazon and Google and Apple bid against each other at private auctions just to own certain extensions ? why did GMO in Japan pay $42M for the extension .shop ... why did shop.app sell for $200K to Shopify whose stock soared more then any other on the stock market this year ...
I imagine in time more people will understand the above and the investment of “good domains” will become more apparent then just (.com only) in every post we see, here, and everywhere else “domain investors” lurk