A thread about development of nGTLDs (early 2017). If you were gonna develop...

[brandnow]

This is just a quick poll. I have so many nGTLDs and I am thinking of developing some into personal sites and blogs. I am just wondering what people think about generic nGTLDs and which would be best suited for web site development. Please vote your favorites that you think in 2017 would be appropriate (and do well) for development.

If "other" nGTLD please add it to a comment reply. Thanks!

 

[enlytend]

To verify what I said, feel free to search on google.com: escorts club.

Well, as you can see that site don't talk about CLUBS, but google index it by extension (club).

If this is the site you're talking about, it's the 2nd and 3rd words of your home page title tag and in every title tag on the site.
Take it out of your title tags and your internal/external anchor text, let it sit for a while, and see if it still ranks - if so, then I'll buy that it's because of the extension.

 

[mpls]

If this is the site you're talking about, it's the 2nd and 3rd words of your home page title tag and in every title tag on the site.
Take it out of your title tags and your internal/external anchor text, let it sit for a while, and see if it still ranks - if so, then I'll buy that it's because of the extension.

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Ok, without keyword in title the site would be in the tenth page.
With keyword in title is in 2nd page.
This is not important.
The important thing is only one: Extension (.club) is bolded -> Keyword find.

Ok, change search term.
Search on google.com: cambio academy

In this case keyword (academy) is not in the title, only in the description.
But again, does not matter, the only important paramter we're considering here is only 1: extension bold -> keyword find.
Extension bold -> keyword find -> search engines treat the extension like a keyword.
Simple.

 

[Ategy]

... I am thinking of developing some into personal sites and blogs. I am just wondering what people think about generic nGTLDs and which would be best suited for web site development ...

That's really the wrong question and the wrong approach as your question completely ignores the entire point of the gTLD's .. which are specifically there so you can ask the more specific question refined to the actual subject of your future site.

The answer to your question depends completely on the subject matter and/or what you want to do with your site!

If it's truly generic, then don't rule out .co or even a longer .com .. but at the end of the day it really depends on what you're looking to do ...

 

[enlytend]

Extension bold -> keyword find -> search engines treat the extension like a keyword.
Simple.

They will bold keywords in the description too and that's definitely not used for ranking.
Anchor text will influence search relevance / rankings too. Most sites have internal and external links with the domain as anchor text.

I'm not saying it definitely is or it definitely isn't - just that you need to control more variables to come to a valid conclusion.

 

[Kuffy]

I guess the main point is that it isn't being ignored, so it probably doesn't do any harm.

 

[AMRO1001]

today I was googling "Top Host" and www.Top.Host came on the Top! though a website such as tophosts.com is since 1997..I did not count in all the factors for the high ranking Top.Host on the top shows where the future is heading to(in my opinion) ....

 

[dordomai]

today I was googling "Top Host" and www.Top.Host came on the Top! though a website such as tophosts.com is since 1997..I did not count in all the factors for the high ranking Top.Host on the top shows where the future is heading to(in my opinion) ....

this is meaningless. today the domain name is just a small part of ranking factors.

you can't compare two sites and say one is ranking better because of the URL. You don't know why it is ranking better.

Unless you have a large number of websites with nearly identical content and other ranking factors that are identical you can't make comparisons.

It is very common that exactmatch.com ranks worse than brand.com for the exact match keyword.

Domain isn't that important for ranking in 2017.

If you think the new TLDs will become popular because of SEO exatch match boost you are 6 years too late. This might have worked in 2010.

Today brand is what matters the most.

Also TopHost is not the same as TopHosts.

For me TopHosts.com ranks first for "Top Hosts" and top.host is not to be found.