I have a Web site on the “us.com” domain. I started development on it during the early part of July 2007. I’ve seen a variety of opinions about this subdomain but I’m not at all concerned about a few extra characters in the domain name. Since I’m focused on business only in the US I would rather own a short name on us.com than some long convoluted hyphenated name just to make it TLD. I realize that domain collectors have a different perspective.
If given a choice most people will buy stuff from companies within their own country. After all, if you own a great domain name like Pharmacy.com it probably doesn’t mean much in Chinese or Russian. Perhaps this why, when you advertise on Yahoo or Google, they ask you to select a market such as United States and Canada, Germany, India, etc.
The thing that strikes me as strange is that the search engines do not seem to see my “us.com” site. Is there some rule that only TLDs get a visit from search engine robots? It’s like there is some filtering going on whether you want it or not. Anyone experience this?
I don’t want to mention my site’s name or specific products because I’m not looking for free advertising, but I can still give you a current example. I have a computer for sale - let’s call it XYZ. It has been offered on my site for 2 weeks. It will beat any price on Ebay and I think it’s the lowest price on the Web. But if you google for XYZ computer your search doesn’t even find it. I’m not talking about placement. I would not care if was on page 50. I’m just saying if you use a search engine to perform a search for an existing Web site, and the site isn’t found at all then maybe there are special issues with sub-domains.
If given a choice most people will buy stuff from companies within their own country. After all, if you own a great domain name like Pharmacy.com it probably doesn’t mean much in Chinese or Russian. Perhaps this why, when you advertise on Yahoo or Google, they ask you to select a market such as United States and Canada, Germany, India, etc.
The thing that strikes me as strange is that the search engines do not seem to see my “us.com” site. Is there some rule that only TLDs get a visit from search engine robots? It’s like there is some filtering going on whether you want it or not. Anyone experience this?
I don’t want to mention my site’s name or specific products because I’m not looking for free advertising, but I can still give you a current example. I have a computer for sale - let’s call it XYZ. It has been offered on my site for 2 weeks. It will beat any price on Ebay and I think it’s the lowest price on the Web. But if you google for XYZ computer your search doesn’t even find it. I’m not talking about placement. I would not care if was on page 50. I’m just saying if you use a search engine to perform a search for an existing Web site, and the site isn’t found at all then maybe there are special issues with sub-domains.
