I noticed that FADU now includes www.FADU.photo for their website, which got me to thinking about my own website.
Has anyone here started using the ".photo" top tier domain name for their website? Are the search engines finding your website(s)? Other good/bad experiences?
van Huyck Photography
"Searching for the moral justification for selfishness" JK Galbraith
I've been using .photography for a while now. I can't say how it helps or doesn't help with search engine ranking but I think it's very human friendly to use as a URL. Keep in mind I'm not a commercial photographer.
I own both .com & .net under my name. I can't speak directly about .photo. If it matters to you, it probably doesn't hurt to spend the $10/ yr to own it, but I would probably still get a .com if it's available.
When I had my website I had .com, .org .inf and .photo
I rarely got a hit from someone who searched anywhere other than .com, and a few .org.
I don't remember ever getting a hit on .photo.
I will say the same thing I said on your APUG post about this.
I've had 2 of then for about 4 or 5 months now. They are a great way to a shorter simpler domain name that still indicates you are a photographer. So many people do firstnamelastnamephotography.com which makes for long easily forgettable domain names.
Zak Baker
zakbaker.photo
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
Ansel Adams
When you had your website? The .photo domain has only been available for about 6 months. And considering every place that sells domain names has a minimum time period of a year wouldn't you still have that website with .photoOriginally Posted by Jim Noel
Zak Baker
zakbaker.photo
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
Ansel Adams
Perhaps from the perspective of the search engines is better to use an extension .com or .net. But the short name is best remembered - the ambiguous situation turns
What if someone is searching for photos of dots?
Why would having anything other than the usual .com, .net, .org, etc have any effect on search engines? From my understanding, search engines don't look at the ".*" they look at the keywords and content thereof.
Perhaps that's not entirely correct?
Search engines pull their hits from the page content, not the domain name. The top-level domain name becomes one of the attributes relating to the hits returned from a query. However, an advanced search can filter or restrict the query to a particular domain or website if they want to.
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