Thread: .In Vs .CO.IN

i observed some difference in rankings on Bing search results for .in vs .co.in, .in domains are ranking better

Originally Posted by ibee

i observed some difference in rankings on Bing search results for .in vs .co.in, .in domains are ranking better

Care to elaborate? I can't imagine any logical reason why a search engine would do that.

I agree with Jeff. Also, are you talking about sites oriented to an Indian audience or people worldwide?

It's quite tiring to continually read the ridiculous ignorance of SEO in the context of search engines favoring or disfavoring one TLD over another.

They do not, period, end of story. Google uses hundreds of quality signals to determine serp and at no time has anyone ever identified a situation where the TLD played a role in better or worse serp that wasn't clearly attributable to some other, well understood and totally standard on or off page factor.

The only area where the TLD is relevant is that ccTLDs likely get relevancy uptick for locally originating searches.

Whenever you hear someone say "Ya know, Google doesn't like .info!"
Or "Hey! Look! Here's a .co ranking #1! Google loves .co!"

... disregard everything that person says because they don't understand the slightest of what they're talking about. It is a fully established matter of fact that there is no TLD bias in Googles algo. It's 100% a matter of on and off page factors. The only role the domain plays is that the keywords can be used for a relevancy signal, and a keyword that exactly matches a search string seems to get a meaningful uptick... but not enough to overwhelm the hundreds of other signals that are in the algo. You cannot "minisite" your way to page 1 for "mortgages", even if you own Mortgages.info.

If someone who knew nothing about SEO registered Flazadoobeedo.com and a skilled SEO technician registered Flazadoobedo.cc and they both competed for P1P1 for searching the word "Flazadoobedo", the .cc would wind up outranking the .com. The catch is, market research has shown some consumer trust issues with backwater TLDs so even if you can get them to rank, you might have a hard time getting them to click.

I think one is always better. In. More direct reading of a domain name.

Originally Posted by Gaurish

Hi,
wanted to know your view

(dot).in vs .co.in

Some people don't consider .co.in a domain, they take it as a subdomain

Hi .in and co.in are both country code top level domains but the difference is .in Primary level TLD and co.in is secondary level TLD.

.in
.co.in
.net.in
.org.in
All function as domains and can be used as such.

.firm.in
.gen.in
.ind.in
Also work as domains but are considered subdomains by alexa / google / etc.

There was some talk of .web.in being introduced, not sure for now.