New TLD's released Jan 1st 2013\. Who's in ?
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Hey Mozzers,
Auctions for new top level domains (examples of top level domains are: .com, .net, .info, .org etc) concluded in the summer and will become available from january 1st.
Did anybody bid/buy a new tld or know someone who did?
And who has plans to register new exact match domains?
My hobby is poker and i have a big passion for it so im already thinking about .poker domains. play.poker, texasholdem.poker etc.
Here is an overview with TLD's that will come available:|
http://www.newgtldsite.com/new-gtld-list/I also like .amsterdam (my home town) as TLD.
What are your thoughts on this? I haven't heard or read much about this in the SEO community so im interested in getting a discussion started.
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I was of the same opinion untill i started to think of the what the possibilities could be for EMD's etc. Might be a great oppurtunity that won't come by often.
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Man i can't wait to start testing with these :).
I'm very curious to see how Google is going to handle this.
Looks like right now all we can do is sepculate on this.
Still fun though
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Well, this was my question really... Does Google consider the TLD as part of a query match? i.e. Would pizza.vegas rank for the search term "pizza vegas" or just "pizza"? Does the .vegas hold any bearing/weight when Google looks to match the query? I would argue that pizza.vegas is not an EMD of the search term pizza vegas
Matt
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Yes i believe so.
It should come down to your link profile (and language of content). If you have a site with French content and a lot of French links (links from sites hosted physically in France and are written in French and have a .fr extension) to a .org domain it will likely rank well in google.fr amongt .fr domains
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But what about an exact match tld. Inter.com isnt 100% exact match hehe.
like pizza.vegas (*query pizza vegas)
real-estate.miami (*query real estate miami)
EDIT:
i put an extra N after 'a exact match' whilst the post was still uploading, causing this double post. -
But what about a exact match tld. Inter.com isnt 100% exact match hehe.
like pizza.vegas (*query pizza vegas)
real-estate.miami (*query real estate miami)
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Wow... I'm sure there will be little benefit if any for SEO with these. I personally can't stand these new domains!
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I too wonder whether one of these new TLDs will make any difference to SEO at all. I've never really thought it could make much difference whether you are .com, .org, .net, etc so I doubt any of these new ones will make any difference either. There are factors with significantly higher importance.
The only benefit I can see from an SEO point of view is if you buy one of these to EMD, and the dotcom is already taken.
If you registered best.university, would that have any benefit on the search phrase "best university"? Unlikely... In the same way that if you sold 'the best intercoms' and registered bestinter.com, I doubt very much you'd rank for the search phrase "best intercom". The com isn't going to be associated with the root domain name.
I do however think that one of the new TLDs could be great for branding, marketing and being memorable to users... Just to come at it from a non-SEO point of view for a second.
I'd love to hear from someone on SEOmoz that has bought one of these new TLDs and can share their experience.
Cheers
Matt
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I'm sure the domain brokers are hoping they dont!
Looks interesting and I totally agree with why they are doing it, so many TLD's have been eaten up by domain brokers, time to free up something new.
I personally think Google will be all over these.
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I noticed this on the news and a few blogs/forums a while back but did not realize they were actually going ahead with it. Do you think these will rank well compared to .org/net/com?
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