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I’ve been learning WordPress and SEO and all that kinda stuff for a digital marketing course and it’s been wonderful. Me and my boys are wanting to start a business of sorts, ecommerce POD kinda stuff, and we really want a .design domain. We just think it has a really good ring to it with the name that we chose. However my instructor has told me that choosing a domain that’s not a .com will be significantly more challenging, and didn’t really explain why. So I’m not sure why he was saying that. Does anyone have any thoughts on that? From what I’ve gathered from doing some research it doesn’t really seem like that’s the case but I thought I’d ask.
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I would try asking /r/SEO
No. The domain extension isn’t critical. People actually remembering though, not as easy with .design. I use a .io for my dev agency – so really depends, but since IO is in my agency name it’s a bit easier to use when just telling people. But seo wise doesn’t make a bit of difference
Ask them what they mean by ‘challenging’. If they can’t answer then you need a better instructor.
What I would do is register both the .com and the .design then forward one to the other.
This would also stop anyone snapping up your .com version.
The TLD does not matter https://www.searchenginejournal.com/does-domain-extension-affect-seo/431956/
It is matter. Regional domains first of all. I know a lot of stories and articles that it doesn’t matter for SEO but it is wrong. Anyway nothing will change for the work with wordpress. And it is not the question for this community, better ask in SEO – topics.
Your instructor was talking mince. The only time something like this makes a difference is when the domain extension is geographic, which neither .com or .design are.
No. Do people named Thom have it any different than Toms?
Just a name and a tld.
Been doing SEO for over 20 years
Neither Domain name nor extension are an issue anymore
At one time yes but not anymore
Edit: spelling
It’s not an SEO issue, but rather a practicality issue.
The standard TLDs have link previews show up in most places, and most web software can recognize them as links and automatically hyperlink them accordingly.
For some of the more specialized TLDs, not all internet apps have caught up with them, and sometimes they’re not recognized as links, which means no automatic hyperlink and no generated preview.
As others have said, there’s no impact to SEO
Your instructor sounds like they are probably old enough to be remembering the .com boom in the 90s. That’s not relevant anymore. BUT buy both. Better to own variants of your name than let a competitor beat you to it. And someone else did point out the fact that certain internet apps struggle to recognize newer TLDs. That problem will eventually disappear entirely. I wouldn’t worry. But by buying both, you can fall back on a .com that redirects to your .design just in case you run into an odd problem. It’s unlikely though. But buying domain variations is recommended anyway, for full ownership of the name and stop competitors from trying to steal it from you.
Your instructor is out of touch with the industry.
Internet domain extensions have grown significantly. If your business is involved with design go for it.
Just becareful of cost of the domain. Some domain sellers are sly and will sell it cheap for the first year then try to price gough you after you have settled in and growns the domain’s reputation.