Is SEO harder for lesser-known TLDs?

[makoo]

Hello all,
A general question: is there a difference between .COM and the less common TLDs?

[Sopie1805]

Hello all,
A general question: is there a difference between .COM and the less common TLDs?

Hello, Makoo

In my opinion there is no inherent difference. Google will rank each equally and your content and marketing will make the greatest difference.

There will be some small negative impact from using less known TLDs, like .me, but most search results come from keyword searches and from direct entry autofill, so it is increasingly rare for users to ever get to the ".com" part of a URL before seeing results.

Personally, I would opt for the best brand name I could get for my business. If both the .com and .me are available, buy the .com (or both). If it's between the brand you want with a .me and a lesser name with .com — go .me and market the crap out of it.

[ShreeVaghani]

Yes I completely agree with you!

A domain people trust is more likely to get clicked on, linked to and shared. And it's easier to build a brand with.

[Sheldon Mooze]

Hello all,
A general question: is there a difference between .COM and the less common TLDs?

Over the years, new TLDs were slowly introduced to accommodate the influx of websites being created daily. But since not all of them are viable for business or blogging use, we will only focus on generic TLDS (gTLDs) and country code TLDs (ccTLDs).

According to Domains Index, there are now about 1,500 top-level domains being used worldwide, with about 31,063,341 domain names registered in a new-gTLD. Unfortunately, a handful of gTLDswere associated with spam pages, including but not limited to '.biz', '.info', '.zip', and '.review'.

By using an alternative gTLDs, there is a risk that your target visitors might view your site as illegitimate or straight up harmful.