Learn how to make money online!

Most of us, when we want to start a website automatically think of a dot com domain name but since almost all the good ones are already taken we end up buying a country specific domain name. Have you ever wondered how it affects your search ranking?

I am not to sure about how other search engines handle country specific domains but Google clearly gives priority to country wise specific domains on their country search engines.

Have a look at the graphic below which I have taken from my Google Webmaster Tool page, it clearly shows that Google automatically decided that the target country is India as the domain name is India specific (.in)

This also tells you that if you are starting a website which might have a world wide audience, then you better stick to a .com or a .net