I have some info for you February 19, 2007
Posted by Evil Green in : Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing, Ranting and Raving, Domain Names , trackbackYou want some .info, I’ve got some .info for you. Stay away from those junky domain names. I typically only register dot-coms and maybe the odd dot-net and I think in the future I will try to buy existing sites rather than starting from scratch but I have decided that I will only buy the main TLDs (top level domains) from now on.
Here is why, so my forums are experiencing more traffic, more posts, more members, and more SPAM. I normally receive 2-5 spam posts a day and that’s with CAPTCHA Image Verification on my registration form. At least 70% of this spam comes from members who have registered with .info domain names such as xxxx@payday-loans-for-free.info or xxxx@save-on-v-iagra.info. There is no way all these spammers are not frustrating the search engines which leads me to believe they will take action by weighting them lower. I think I will avoid hyphens (“-“) as well as that seems to be common theme as well.I know I am going to try and avoid looking and smelling like spammer so I don’t get painted as one – I’d suggest you do the same.
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Totally agree! For some reason (my guess is they are cheap), .info domains are plagued by spammers. In my experience, 98% of sites that link to mine (that are .info) are in fact spammers. There has been no oficial word from google (I think) about whether they rank them lower or not, but my guess is that they DO!
I doubt Google would ever publicaclly release information such as less weight being put on .info.
Lets just avoid them