.photo Domain Name

[Doug Howk]

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?

[adelorenzo]

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.

[gregmo]

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.

[Jim Noel]

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.

[Light Guru]

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.

[Light Guru]

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.

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 .photo

[Eskeyp]

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

[Christopher Barrett]

What if someone is searching for photos of dots?

[Matsushime]

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?

[djdister]

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.

[Matsushime]

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.

So essentially the .photo has no effect. It's all about the content and key-wording! ...well unless the one searching is doing an advanced search to filter it out. That doesn't seem too likely though.

[Doug Howk]

My understanding is that search engines rely on PageRanking algorithms for what pages to return. Google uses several indices to determine page ranking including number of links to a page from other sites. Less discussed is search traces. If you moved your site to another domain name (including tier change), those links and history would be missing.

[Jim Noel]

NO.I pulled down the web site even though I still had months to go. I had had enough of image theft and crank e-mails.