information “People still like .com’s,” says Google’s John Mueller

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Mueller is known in SEO circles as the “new Matt Cutts”. Matt Cutts used to be the head of Google’s Webspam team and would make videos answering questions from people about Google’s thoughts and practices regarding ranking websites. The videos were highly useful and would be something that many marketers and professional search engine optimizers would write about, comment on, and debate.

Mueller also leaves comments on Reddit once once in awhile. Extremely useful insight since it is coming directly from someone at Google with real authority. Compared to your cousin who thinks he knows about SEO. Of course… I recommend you take what Google says with a bit of a grain of salt. They’ve lead me astray more than once with “advice.”

So John Mueller, the current Google SEO community outreach authority, admits people still like .com domains and likely will continue to use them. What do you think about Google saying “People still like .com’s?”..

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[baseballworld]

I earn xx to xxx daily in my dot coms parking.

No secret it's king for a reason and most widely known and typed in.

 

[GoKaizen]

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Mueller is known in SEO circles as the “new Matt Cutts”. Matt Cutts used to be the head of Google’s Webspam team and would make videos answering questions from people about Google’s thoughts and practices regarding ranking websites. The videos were highly useful and would be something that many marketers and professional search engine optimizers would write about, comment on, and debate.

Mueller also leaves comments on Reddit once once in awhile. Extremely useful insight since it is coming directly from someone at Google with real authority. Compared to your cousin who thinks he knows about SEO. Of course… I recommend you take what Google says with a bit of a grain of salt. They’ve lead me astray more than once with “advice.”

So John Mueller, the current Google SEO community outreach authority, admits people still like .com domains and likely will continue to use them. What do you think about Google saying “People still like .com’s?”../QUOTE]

 

[Kuffy]

Yep - we're all a bunch of commies.

 

[Recons.Com]

Let me get this right. I type the word net. Google assumes that I was not searching for the word net, and therefore shows me only websites that have the tld .net ??

Yes, they completely ignore it for ranking in SERP.
Mistyped queries - it is another theme.

easy to test... Try now net divorce and org divorce since that would definitely not be mistype.

 

[MapleDots]

People are more likely to click on a search result from a .com website because they trust them more and see them as having more authority. That's very important for SEO.

I disagree with that....

In Canada I am far more likely to click on a .ca because it means I am dealing with a Canadian company. The US is at a distinct disadvantage over other countries because the .US ccTLD has not taken off yet. Clicking on a .com means you could be dealing with anyone and the potential client now has to figure out if they are dealing with a US company or a company from another country.

I think ccTLD's are the best out there and I sell a lot of .ca's to Canadian clients.

Same goes for .uk or .de.... I bet the click through rate is greater in those countries too as opposed to .com's.

No arguing that .com is king but seriously when I shop or look things up I go to google.ca and look for addresses ending in .ca. It is the quickest way to find local results.

 

[Kuffy]

It's interesting that nobody ever suggests .eu as a ccTLD.

 

[MapleDots]

It's interesting that nobody ever suggests .eu as a ccTLD.

I think that one may just go the way of the dodo bird as the eu breaks into pieces. The concept was really good but uniting that many countries and keeping them together is going to be tough.

 

[Rainmaker-NL]

I think they want to say extensions will not be used for ranking therefore don't register them for better SERP rankings. There are many very high CPC keywords in the form of domain extensions around like creditcard, accountant, lawyer. They want to say if you register best creditcard or best lawyer, the creditcard and lawyer parts will not be counted in the algorithm.

I know what they said. And my question was why one of my search keyword did show up in the tlds of most hits of the first page. The response was that this is because my search word was considered a mistype.

easy to test... Try now net divorce and org divorce since that would definitely not be mistype.

lol, if Google considers "org divorce" a mistype for divorce.org, then they are not as intelligent as I thought.

 

[Recons.Com]

org divorce returned bunch of sites ending in .org

So it is a lie on Google's behalf to claim that extension doesn't matter. They clearly considered the right of the dot as a source of information and placed lots of weight on it for those sites to come up first in the search.

 

[EmotiveDomains]

It's interesting that nobody ever suggests .eu as a ccTLD.

.eu was never going to work due to there being so many different languages spoken within Europe.

 

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I disagree with that....

In Canada I am far more likely to click on a .ca because it means I am dealing with a Canadian company. The US is at a distinct disadvantage over other countries because the .US ccTLD has not taken off yet. Clicking on a .com means you could be dealing with anyone and the potential client now has to figure out if they are dealing with a US company or a company from another country.

I think ccTLD's are the best out there and I sell a lot of .ca's to Canadian clients.

Same goes for .uk or .de.... I bet the click through rate is greater in those countries too as opposed to .com's.

No arguing that .com is king but seriously when I shop or look things up I go to google.ca and look for addresses ending in .ca. It is the quickest way to find local results.

I mean compared to .net etc and the new extensions.

.ca .co.uk etc obviously have great authority within their specific countries.

 

[GoKaizen]

What type of domains?

I think ccTLD's are the best out there and I sell a lot of .ca's to Canadian clients.